“I am sad,” I say to Walter a few times a day. He always looks at me with his Arms of an Angel eyes, then I scratch his butt, and feel momentarily better. I keep…
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Reports from the Land of Emotional Upheaval
At about 10:30 this morning I took off my glasses, set them on the arm of the La-Z-Grrl, put my face in my hands, and bawled my fucking head off while whispering to myself “I…
Emotional Containment
We’ve now reached the point where I have more fingers on one hand than there are days left of Sister #2 and her family and Walter living six miles away. They leave on Monday and…
October 25, a day more sweet than bitter
I remember where I was on October 25, 1998. I was babysitting my one-year-old niece Jaycie while Sister #2 labored away giving birth to my nephew Maxwell. When we got that call that he was…