I remember hearing once that we begin to die the minute we are born. (I think it was Stephen Jenkinson who said this.) This poem is...

We die as we have lived. If we are fortunate, we have death to teach us about our investment in our lives. It was death that helped me...

What do we do with what we know? This subject has been on my mind heavily for a decade. Ever since I retired and was no longer hurling...

There is something about how we expect all things to be easier than they truly are that drives our cynicism. Perhaps it is because this...

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 #18 In this episode I dive into an intensely compressed story of how I have been existing and navigating on frequencies...

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 #13 This Blogcast examines what it is to want to be an adult and what it really takes to leave off childish things to...

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...