The Other Side of Young
I rarely post on my website anymore. There’s a reason. My writing has moved. I’m writing weekly on Substack about grief, aging, and the lessons learned from a long life. [...]
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Apr, 2026
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Feb, 2026
Another Self-Help Book
Another Self-Help Book? Photo by Ashley Batz on Unsplash I read my first “self-help” book as a teenager. When I was fourteen, a Family Services counselor I saw one [...]
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Jul, 2024
Music Till The End
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Dec, 2023
Never Visit A Dying Person
Never Visit A Dying Person I bet you’re scratching your head right now. Why wouldn’t you want to visit a dying person? Would you abandon your wife, husband, mother, [...]
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Aug, 2023
How Sunny Got Her Name
Photo of Sunny, six weeks old—Our first moment together and our first kiss Everyone called her Sunny but her real name was Sunshine Hope. I was the only one who [...]
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Aug, 2023
Finding the Right Love Song
geralt from Pixabay First things first—Love isn't a noun. Love is a verb revealed through actions, not words. Before I continue, I’d like to share the ways I learned about [...]
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Jul, 2023
Public Service Announcement
Public Service Announcement (PSA) This is a warning and information that might save your life or the life of someone you love. If you’ve heard of TIA’s, you probably [...]
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Apr, 2023
Trauma and the Unexamined Life
My first experience with how the body stores traumatic memory came decades before I learned such a thing existed. The year was 1991. Phil’s dad had died, and I was [...]
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Mar, 2023
A Little Life Review
For most of my life, if you asked, I would tell you I had a wonderful childhood. And I did. But that’s not the entire story. Although I knew [...]
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Aug, 2022
Seventeen
August 17th, 17 years ago. I’d been home only a few minutes after an afternoon spent at my mother’s bedside when a feeling flooded me and I knew I had [...]