Diagnosed Mortal #9 Death and catastrophe; portals into exploring how one might attempt to become the best human being possible. My...

Diagnosed Mortal #8 This essay explores using the word lost when referring to a person who had died and just what that turn of phrase...

Diagnosed Mortal #7 This post is about how we avoid darkness and what that aversion and prejudice costs us in terms of our dying with...

"The radiance falls on all of us." ~Lidia Yuknavitch Diagnosed Mortal #6 I am one week into dead girl walking and I'm getting people...

Diagnosed Mortal #5 On this day, I wax poetic regarding what turned out to be a salad days redux for me at 40 years old. Who doesn't have...

Diagnosed Mortal #4 Regarding money...I laugh at this now but it took me an entire lifetime to get to the joke...and that was after many...

Shouldn't you be doing something for me right now? Diagnosed Mortal #3 How peculiar to be human beings and find ourselves in relationship...

Diagnosed Mortal #2 This post is concerned with stuff. ..What is to be done with it after we die? Millions of people are confronting...

Diagnosed Mortal #1 Years ago, before I even settled down seriously to write my memoir, I thought I would give myself a writing...

Summer solstice brings renewed energy and focus. I had in mind, in the spring that I might like to do an audio book of “Different Ways”....

For the last three years I have had the privilege to assist my neighbors, the Lewises, with a health concern they were dealing with. I...

It has been a long time since I’ve written in this blog. I have been pondering this last six months on what I might like to do next to...

When you were a child you were treated kind but you were never brought up right You were always spoiled with a thousand toys but still...

Writing my book has opened up doors for me. One of those doors belongs to a woman who I had the great fortune to have taken a Corporeal...

I wrote a book...