Twenty years ago today, my dad died. I was not quite nineteen years old. I am not quite thirty-nine now, and sometime in the last years I passed the day on which I'd been alive longer without a father than with one. Grief is funny, I think, and individual and complicated. The immediate pain is… Continue reading Twenty Years
Month: February 2014
Inexplicable
Scene: Trying to leave the house. Late as usual. Me: Get in the car, please. L: Hey mom why is there a moon? Me: I don't know. Get in the car. L: You can't fish in the spawning grounds. Did you know that? Me: No. Get in the car. L: some other nonsense I can't… Continue reading Inexplicable
