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 […]
Tag Archives: mourning
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 […]
Our story…
My mama died in 2010. Unmoored, I lurched through the next four years, which were filled with additional challenges unrelated to her death that I never could have anticipated. And through […]
Benny Is Barking 