What’s Wrong With Me?
I’m grieving — for my country I’ve felt this, on and off, since 2016 There were intimations of it even long before that; waves of disquiet and dread during the second Bush administration as it used the national tragedy of…
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The Season of Letting Go
My husband and I have embraced our new life as climate refugees, fleeing from our beloved but fire-scorched Northern California back to our former home in Idaho. In NorCal, October had become a season of dread, every warm breeze sparking…
A Sonnet for my Sister
Going into care was the best heartbreaking option The bird with ruined wings still hopes to fly,But keepers kind have feathered her last nest.Intending well, they turn her from the skyAnd urge her fragile, hollow bones toward rest. There was…
Finding a Lost Friend on Facebook
And hoping they stay lost Maybe this has happened, in some form or other, to you You had a friend. At one point in your life, this person was a dear friend, someone with whom you felt an enduring connection, someone…
The Loss We’re Not Prepared For
When An Adult Sibling DiesJ My husband and I sit before a crackling fire in the lobby of the old Mendocino Hotel. Outside, mist blurs the headlands as it drifts into shore and then draws out again, as though the ocean…