Tag Archives: suicide

No Good Title for Connecticut

The happy house with the plastic Santa fetish is a few blocks from my house. It stands out in a one mile radius for number and variety of lights that some will attribute to joy, others to humor, and still … Continue reading

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Last Night’s Recurring Dream

Last Night’s Recurring Dream Last night was another variation of the recurring dream. I’m somewhere between the age of sixteen and thirty-one and I am in my mother’s house at that time though I don’t recall that it is ever … Continue reading

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Utah to Arizona #5 Seeing Life History

I want to say something about yesterday. It was my granddaughter’s twelfth birthday, and it marked thirty-three years since my brother’s funeral. Because the house is for sale, Sam and I needed to be away while strangers walked through it. … Continue reading

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Guilt From Death Fuels Comparisons

After my brother died from suicide I was too shell-shocked and self-enclosed to think beyond myself, but slowly, I began to understand grief would not vanish, or heal itself without my active participation. Deep, traumatic grief was not a knee … Continue reading

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