Diagnosed Mortal #20 This is the last hurrah as I end this series. I reflect upon my experience writing these essays and think aloud...

Diagnosed Mortal #16 Thoughts about the wandering peoples of the world and what it might mean if everyone is really homeless. When I wrote the essay for this post I was trying to understand what Jenkinson was getting at in our being orphans and homeless....uprooted from our sense of place. I never did quite follow what he was putting down personally in this regard that summer. Reading the essay now, it seems I fell into a kind of romantic hole in my trying to process the po

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...

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