Diagnosed Mortal #12 This post explores the different ways the light plays upon a human being when undeniable experiences strike without...

Art credit: Gregg Segal and his art project 7 Days of Garbage Diagnosed Mortal #11 This post is about owning choices, making reparations...

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

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...

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

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