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Oct 112 min read

Polyps

1 My knees and hands were bleeding and hurt like the dickens, but I was still holding onto the seashell I had picked up from the darkened...

Mar 30, 202319 min read

Baby Bridget's Ashes

Adrian Reynosa awaited his final appointment of the day. He was weary of urine tests, paperwork, perfunctory questions with equally...

Feb 13, 20236 min read

Fun (and NOT so much) with Dementia: One Couple’s Journey with Love and Loss

(Note: the following are excerpts from Rebecca M. Blackwell’s book published in 2022. Here is a link for the full copy). For most people,...

Nov 22, 20223 min read

MoMA and Hadestown: Rothko, Matisse and Anais Mitchell

Arrested by the Dance (1909) by Henri Matisse, I sat and drew it in my 6x6 inch sketchbook. The figures form a wild chain in a distorted...

Aug 15, 20224 min read

Reverence is not Only for the Religious

You wind around switchbacks, tree-covered mountainsides, and ravines and then eventually through a long tunnel. Without warning, you are...