end-feels like death, the ending of the story, finishing a task or job or being finished off more metaphorically child plays with dragon, mother yells, you're going to meet your end, when ___ sees the scorch marks on the bedsheets…

"I have nothing but contempt for that woman," Benny told me after the first pretrial hearing. "Are you outta your fuckin' mind?" I replied, more a statement than a question. "What, you think she did it?" "You think she didn't?"…

I never know what I’ll find in the woods on another rainy day. Today, I reached an obstacle on the trail just past my favorite tree. A fallen tree. Aww, poor tree. I’ve seen fallen trees on the trail before,…

I moved into the city after 20 years of living in the suburbs. That meant selling my car, splitting up the household and traveling light. No need for a yard, driveway, lawn service, pool dues, and PTA meetings. I was…

It's a surprisingly fragile thing: dignity. Just when I thought I had it all - the career I'd dreamed of as a child, a doting boyfriend, a condo out of an architectural magazine - it collapsed like a house of…

I thought I saw you in your Dodge Ram Truck driving by my house. You waved and kept on going. It was not you, you died a few weeks ago. I thought I saw you riding your e-bike past my…

It suddenly occurred to me this morning : I've lived most of my life in the tangle of a relationship with a man I have now lost to lung cancer two and a half years ago....Paul. Though I have neatly…

I never wanted kids. As a young woman, when I was starting out as a filmmaker, there were plenty of obstacles to my directing films and I knew that having kids would become the biggest obstacle of all. Plus, family…

lost my house lost my memory lost my car lost my photos lost my yearbooks lost my treehouse lost what nature had given me lost my identity lost what I gained lost my structure lost my footing lost my sense…