(I’m challenging myself to write daily starting now, 7/30/2025)
Category: Grief
An Elegy to My Tiny Tyrant
I knew it would be hard saying farewell to you. I minimized so much, thinking it would be the big things, like your presence. Last night when I went to bed, the same night that I let you rest my sweet dog, I felt your absence. And I miss you so much. The little things…
The Intimacy of White Supremacy
I’ve had so much going on in my brain for months now and have not been able to get it out of my bones. Everything I’ve written lately has been trash because I have not been “inspired” to write. I keep trying. Writing is an old friend that I call upon to help me process…
Grief and Suicide
Originally published July 3, 2012 Emile Durkheim, one of the seminal founders of sociology as a discipline, studied suicide at the end of the 19th century. His findings underscored many ideas that modern society still recognizes. One of his findings, in particular, has stuck with me, 15 years after my sociology coursework. The finding? That suicide in modern…
Grouchy in Paradise 