
Essays about navigating parental grief, aging, and soon-to-be empty nesting (with an occasional rant)
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Ana, age 14 (with Pepper)
Did you know that September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month? For the first time in a decade, I totally forgot about it. Then I logged into Facebook and saw that my friend Laura had posted a photo of her son Be...
Photo by Author
In the last year of my daughter’s life, she told me she wanted me to read her journal after she died, one page a day, and write back to her. She told me to answer what she wrote in those pages as if she were still alive, as...
Illustration by Author
A quick note: I published this piece on Medium yesterday and I’m republishing it here even though I suspect many of my readers don’t know much about Medium or their new writing app (they’re calling it TK).
I...
August Fireflies — Painting by author
It’s been almost fourteen years since the day I found out that my daughter had cancer. In the past decade and a half, I’ve written hundreds of essays about grief, trying to make sense of her illness an...
Illustration by Author
I am currently underemployed. As a freelance writer, I’m at the forefront of an AI-induced job apocalypse. As such, I’ve been spending too much time on LinkedIn hunting for writing gigs and applying for full-t...
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I write about grief and other things. My focus with this substack is to share essays about navigating parental grief, nature, birds, parenting and the occasional well-researched rant.
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