Benny loves Enrique
Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]
Living with chronic illness is very difficult psychologically on a person and her family. I’ll write about the many years of Mom’s illness later… it should be written. For now, just understand […]
I’ll admit right now, my mom and I had a very complicated, psychologically enmeshed and possibly unhealthy relationship. Sometimes this played out in relation to her animals, or more precisely, […]
Since I’m thinking and writing about my experiences with grief and burnout, I made a little trip to BookPeople just to see what was new there. The Grief and Grieving shelf […]
Maybe about 6 weeks after Benny moved in with me, I took him with me to San Antonio to stay with my significant other (“E”) for the weekend. I had […]
Because Benny has something to say… A poem for today, Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The dog trots freely in the street and sees reality and […]
As I mentioned in, Our Story, this blog is not just about mourning the loss of my mom and getting used to living with her (very bad, but very precious) […]
I’m not an expert on grief and grieving. I’m not really sure I need to be to be able to offer some insights. As uncharted as this territory was for me […]
This is thirteen seconds. He did this for more than one hour… straight.
I’m having a little trouble choosing the right verb tenses to describe my life with Benny. Sometimes in these pages I will tell you about a specific event from the […]
Benny was my dog brother, and now our mom was gone. So, of course, there was no question that he would come and live with me. No question. I’d heard […]