I was driving down the road and realized again that I can’t call my mom anymore. Here’s how I reckoned with it.
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How My Bold Mom Taught Me to Face Fear & Embrace Reality
A story about a mom, her daughter and staring fear right in the face.
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Musings By My Writing Mentor and a Tobacco Vendor Turned Spiritual Genius
My writing mentor Rob had a pension for passing along his favorite books. I’d show up for weekly writing meetings, and more often than not he’d present me with one wrapped in beautiful paper. Sometimes the books were brand new. Other times they were used classics that he’d pull from his own collection (I liked those the most). Inside each cover, […]
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Mom’s Last Surgery & What It All Means Now
November 17, 2014 marked one of the strangest and toughest days for me and my family. It all started around 4am, when my mom, sister, cousin, and I trekked to the Loma Linda Hospital to face the inevitable. Mom’s endometrial tumor had returned in a monstrous form, and her surgeon was going to do his best to […]
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How to Avoid the Shattering Effect of Loss — Or Can You Really?
Thoughts on being shattered after the death/loss of someone you loved.
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Are Your ‘Mental Frequencies’ Ruining Your Life?
The process of being a human being is not easy for anyone. When you get down to the bottom of it all, a soul (which was once formless and ever expansive) is placed into the constraints of a human body. Each of us is pushed from the comfort of the womb out into the world […]
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WATCH: Mary Oliver Reads “Wild Geese”
Enjoy a beautiful poem by a truly amazing and beautiful woman: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, […]
