On feeling better
I’d like to add to a conversation started here at Huffington Post, and continued here by the very thoughtful Julie Gillis. In the original Huffpo post, Christy Heitger-Ewing lists 8 things you should […]
Tag Archives: acceptance
Chronic illness: acceptance, denial and the reality we make
Mama was diagnosed with Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID) in the late 1990s, right around her fiftieth birthday. She had a big birthday bash planned at The Palm. She had bought […]
Finding your own inner barking dog
A lot of these stories are really about me figuring out they are stories–narratives, if not wholly fictions—that I have used to make sense of my life. And a lot […]
Going with the flow
Whoever said buying things can’t make you happy? This product makes me happy. Aside from the barking, Benny had (and still has) another very bad habit. Benny pees anywhere he damn […]
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 […]
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 […]
Benny Is Barking 