Today, my mother would have been 85 years old. She is eternally 56, but I often think, and always on Thanksgiving, particularly when it falls on her birthday, about how my life would be different if she were still here, how we would celebrate her, how we would celebrate with her. I feel (more) acutely […]
Month: November 2023
A Different Pace Towards a Different World
“Our liberation is connected. And so is our oppression.” “Identity is all we have left.” “War is not going to solve anyone’s problems. Violence begets more violence.” “So many of us are not allowed to mourn.” “It’s not easy when the world is silencing you.” “We all have a locus of control.” “Fight for freedom, […]
Surviving
Friends, I wrote a post 9 days ago, debriefing a serious accident I had in mid-October. For whatever reason (likely because of the way social media algorithms are structured) or because it was a lengthy update, it didn’t get read. Today, I had another, different type of accident, a car accident with my daughter in […]
Life and Death
A little over three years ago, I tweeted the above tweet (which came up in my Facebook memories on the three year anniversary of the post). Two weeks ago, at a work-related conference, I was involved in a health-related accident that, had it gone slightly differently, might have led to my death. This is not […]