Category: Loss

  • 522-1556

    my mom’s phone was disconnected today and although she’s been dead for three years it felt like the umbilical cord had been ripped between us my stepfather had finally dropped her outgoing message a few months back until then we could call and hear her voice the one before she got sick before she herself…

  • the Circle of Life

    the Circle of Life

    Only a few cards arrive for my husband’s birthday, but our kitchen window is full. Cards line the sill, and others hang from the wooden mullions that lend our Vermont farmhouse that window-pane look. Moons and lambs and jumping cows continue to trickle in–and do look out of place beside the ones poking fun of…