Worry beads & loss

January 9, 2011
There's another way to deal with grief, as well:those who keep loss like worry beads in their pocket,always touching them, working them,actively aware of theirpresence...

Brick in your pocket

January 8, 2011
Some people may think yesterday's Storypeople post on loss is an unrealistic, Pollyanna-ish way to look at it.Grief is a heavy weight that's always with us.Something...

Reason to live

January 7, 2011
They left me with your shadow, saying things like Life is not fair & I believed them for a long time. But today, I remembered the way you laughed &...

Doing love over–what would you do?

September 9, 2010
The heart wants what the heart wants.Logic has nothing to do with love--it's driven by the heart.Sometimes we're fortunate enough to find the love of our life.A lucky...

Thinkin’ about heaven

April 5, 2010
Off to Utah in a few weeks with my friend and former business partner. We're taking some of the money we were using for our now defunct business and treating ourselves...

Paradise: lost, gained, who knows?

October 29, 2009
The only true paradise is the one you've lost. ~ Marcel ProustHow many times have we failed to appreciate something fully, until it's lost to us for good?At that point,...

Paths that cross will cross again

September 14, 2009
Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at...

Feeling the loss today

June 19, 2009
I wonder how many people, like me, think of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson all the time? And feel his loss acutely?We don't see this kind of American original that often any...

Silcon Valley, the open road, and mortality

May 10, 2009
In just a few days, we’ll be off to California. Since this is FLH’s “fam” trip, I’ve been trying to give him a feel for what it was like to live out there. I...

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