Tag: #legacy

The Commission of Omission

A plastic tub filled with written-in journals, most of them spiral notebooks

I tear through journals the way other people tear through snacks. The habit started innocently enough with an inviting empty notebook and an irresistible pen. Next thing I knew, I was juggling a pile of blank back-up journals, more pens than could possibly run dry in the course of a human lifetime, and three-and-a-half large…


Every Time You Go Away …

When we lose someone special to us, we note that they will always be in our hearts. And they are. We carry them with us wherever we go. But they take a piece away from us as well. Their passing leaves one less person in the world who remembers our personal times and spaces, who…