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 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
I blame our mother
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, […]
Pay attention
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 […]
Facing the impossible
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 […]
A real tale to tell, a real tail to tell it with
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 […]
The beginning of burning out
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) […]
Denial and distraction, and barking dogs
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 […]
Lest you think the barking has subsided over time…
This is thirteen seconds. He did this for more than one hour… straight.
Grief and the problem with tenses
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 […]
The unbearable loudness of Benny
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 […]
Benny Is Barking 