Benny is in denial
Benny is a very jealous boy. I picked up this tiny, pitiful creature last week. He was wandering around, crawling with fleas and covered in scabs, fur all gone from the […]
Category Archives: Grief
Flashing back
Before I had this fancy blog, I had a little blog called Sun Comes Up and We Start Again. Enrique was just mentioning it the other day. I thought I […]
Thank God, Benny is still barking
Some day this house will feel way too quiet. In some ways, it already does. Today, I am trying to appreciate and even relish the hysterical loud barking. My Sophie girl […]
Still learning from Benny’s barking
Benny’s barking still has the power to shatter my sense of stability… when that sense is particularly shaky! One of Benny’s favorite times to bark is when I’m on the […]
Anticipatory grief
I guess what I should really be writing about here is how I’m feeling about my 18-year-old kitty, Sophie. I started worrying about her death right after Mama died. I […]
Grief and the fullness of living
I’ve been thinking about an article a friend sent me from Elephant Journal about the importance of sadness in everyday life. The idea that one could, and indeed should, feel […]
Projections
In 1999, I moved to Washington, DC — well, Silver Spring, Maryland — to go to grad school. I was pretty ambivalent about the move and that stressed me out. I […]
Two minute blog post: Thankful for Lenny
My mom had a cat, Smudgy, who decided one day just to move to another house down the street. She would come over every now and then (her sister, Sooty, stayed […]
Disruptions we choose
We are home and Benny is barking again. For him, everything is “back to normal.” Does he remember the Grand Canyon? The Painted Desert? The petroglyphs? Does he remember the […]
Ten-minute blog post… Go!
I feel like writing, but I have a competing need to HIT THE ROAD! We are in the last stretch to get home. I feel very disconnected right now. Disconnected […]
Benny Is Barking 