Tag Archive for death

Binary

      On January 10th, 2016, David Bowie died.       The internet was suddenly aflame with people who remembered his music, his videos, his movies, and his gender-bending personas. On Facebook, I saw literally hundreds of RIP posts, photos, tributes, and articles about him. People I would have never guessed were fans,…

Donna Jo

      You’re never prepared for the phone call that tells you someone you love has passed on.       I think my mom thought I was being purposely vacuous and a little bitchy, but when I said, “Wait, what? No – what? What?” over and over, I honestly could not wrap my…

Still Alive

      I survived.       So far, any way.       The other day, after a few weeks of just feeling weird and wrong, with twinges in my chest and constant anxiety over dropping dead… I woke Mark up just as I was getting off work at 7am and had him…

Carol Jean

      Most of us have family, in some regard or another. I, for one, have a large one. Both paternal and maternal cousins, aunts, uncles, great-aunts & great-uncles, second and third and fifteenth cousins…       Growing up, I always felt a bit of a black sheep. My family never made me…

Immortal

      I want to live forever.       I never want to die.       Yet…       Sometimes, it does feel futile, frustrating, scary, hopeless. Life, that is. Sometimes, it seems like just curling up and dying would be a better solution than struggling through every single day. Worrying…

Uncle Bob

      Everyone has an Uncle Bob, right?       That’s the trope. Good ol’ Uncle Bob.       I have two. Well, technically, I only ever had one, but I don’t really know him. He’s on my father’s side of the family and their a lot less close than the folk…

Modest

      I have been thinking a lot about Daddy these past couple of days, as is customary around the anniversary of his birth and his death, and about how much I miss him.       How much I wish he were here to meet his precious little grandson, Malakai, and both of…