I’m Still Here…
I haven’t posted in quite some time, so here’s a reassurance and an update all at once. I’ve been dealing with my mom’s death, which has hit me both harder and easier than I expected. She was the absolute center of my life in recent years, and it’s surreal to have that focus gone. I’ve […]
Obituary and Eulogy For Mom
My mother, Renate Wisoker, passed away at home, peacefully and without pain, on April 22, 2017. The official obituary can be found here. For my own, personal eulogy to my mother, which I somehow managed to get through reading at the memorial service without crying, please continue reading. I am a writer. Those of you […]
The Year Continues…
I’m home again, from my most recent Florida trip. The garden is starting to bloom. The pineapple sage has, improbably, migrated six feet to the side and into an entirely different bed. The lavender did not survive the winter. The ferns did. I’m waiting to see if the baby fig tree is going to recover […]
Miracles Aren’t Always Good
Over the last few months, I’ve put out a couple of blog posts about the process of my mom slowly dying. She’s been fighting lung cancer, and last year it metastasized to her brain. The docs gave her until about Christmas 2016 at best. I’m fresh out of poetic, meaningful rambles about that. I’m planning […]
Arguments Not To Use With Me
On FB, Twitter, and personal conversations of late, I’ve been seeing the same tacks develop in conversation after conversation. I can predict the curve of the conversation and whether I’ll have to block/cut off the person in question within their first two comments. (I’m being generous.) I’m going to detail those arcs here, and I’ll […]
A Book!
Another Book!
ANOTHER Book!
Not A Book (GOTCHA!)
My beloved woofhound. Lost him in January in 2015. Still miss the big stinky goofball.