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

Cile
Sep 17, 20212 min read


Death Phobia 101
Diagnosed Mortal #10 This post is about the consequence of not talking about difficult things. In truth, talking about things not usually...

Cile
Aug 13, 20213 min read


At Home we're Not Lost
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...

Cile
Aug 6, 20213 min read


How to Die a Lot
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...

Cile
Aug 3, 20213 min read


Found Alive in the Desert
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...

Cile
Jul 27, 20212 min read


Filthy Lucre and The Scam
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...

Cile
Jul 23, 20213 min read


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

Cile
Jul 20, 20213 min read


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

Cile
Jul 13, 20213 min read
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