Category Archives: loss
Neverending Story
I’m sitting with my son in the back of the emergency room. We’ve been waiting 2 hours for the attending social work or psychiatrist or whomever to decide whether I can take him home, or whether he’ll be packed into an ambulance and driven to the pediatric hospital an hour away. We’re here because my (…) MORE »
The Book of Job
“Fine. No books tonight, Sören. I love you. Good night.” Sören scrunches his sandy eyebrows and puckers his lips. With his overgrown, homemade haircut he looks like a Beatle with some serious indigestion. “Not fair!” My persecuted rock star has spent the last year rehearsing his intonation, frustration, connotation, and implication on the frets of a single (…) MORE »
Hello, my name is Clara, and my Brother is an Alcoholic.
I am the sister of an addict. He is an alcoholic and a drug user, and he has burned nearly all the bridges in our family with his lies. He never could learn the easy way. If someone told him not to do something, he turned right around and did it, the same when he (…) MORE »
The Two Percent
Nathaniel is my only child. He’s 20 months old. I had him when I was 40. For most of my life, I never planned on having children at all, then I met my husband who used to answer, “A dad,” when he was a kid and adults asked him what he wanted to be when (…) MORE »
A PRAYER FOR HER LIFE – A Short Story
“Lord, please take care of her. She’s so frail…” I falter and don’t know what else to say. If God knows my deepest thoughts, why do I ever bother trying to pray? Then I think of my husband and his sister, Lee. The way she clung to me in the airport last night. “At least, (…) MORE »
After the Miscarriage
They say holidays are hard times for those who’ve lost loved ones. I’m 33, happily married, and we still visit my grandparents’ homes on Christmas day. Death has not been a big part of my life. But, two years ago, I miscarried on Christmas Day. The uncles, aunts, cousins and vibrant grandparents sat around the (…) MORE »
