In: Love & Loss
drift
November 24, 2018santa fe/new mexico In the Southwest Reading Room at the Santa Fe Public Library, I sit in a heavy straight-backed Mission…
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gut
April 27, 2018santa fe/new mexico Boo has always let me go. Not as in giving me permission, but in understanding I needed to…
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pongal
February 19, 2017kengeri hobli/india On the first anniversary of my father’s death, I dream I telephone him. “Hello,” my Dad says on the…
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chairlift
December 28, 2016boulder/colorado It’s just after Christmas and Ann and I are sitting on her leather sofa in her home in Boulder, stretched…
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loam
December 2, 2016boulder/colorado My sister Ann and I are having a glass of Malbec after the Thanksgiving holiday in Boulder, reminiscing about Dad…
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ghat
September 1, 2016varanasi/india Three weeks after my father dies, I travel to India on a pre-arranged contract to facilitate an English intensive camp…
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cache
July 28, 2016laguna woods/california I stayed with my father during his last six weeks, sleeping on the floor in the sad rental in…
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specter
July 12, 2016malibu/california On Resetting In infinity, I would call out her ten thousand names, but here she is the one you call…
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crow
June 3, 2016laguna hills/california While my Dad sleeps, I do yoga in his lamplit room, background sound the steady labor of his oxygen…
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