October 2011

A Retrospective

4 Little Blue Monsters, A Hallow’s Eve Poem

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October 31, 2011

Oh curse the dawn, with itsblack skies and heat-seeking windswhen all else sleeps on this Hallow’s Eveand I stumble madly in the cold,hair wild and crushed beneath hat,heedless of…

A Retrospective

Mini-Respite

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October 24, 2011

What heavy things weigh on my mind at 5:30 in the morning as I roll out of bed to take my newly minted freshman, O, to 6:00 a.m. swim…

A Retrospective Depression Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

A Hundred Years of Solitude…

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October 19, 2011

Originally published October 19, 2011

…would not be enough, if you were to ask me at the moment.  But that is just this very moment, when the sky is still…

A Retrospective Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

I AM MY MOTHER’S KEEPER

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October 1, 2011

Originally published October 1, 2011

Ever beautiful.

Not in the way that I ever thought I would be – not sandwiched between my mom and my daughter for a day of…