Tag: death

  • Unfortunate

    It doesn’t seem to be just one thing.  Losing my job before the holidays was stressful enough, but that was only the beginning.  They say things comes in three’s and sure enough it did for me.  A beloved family member who is in stage IV has taken a turn for the worst.  On top of…

  • 9-11

    The doctors told me that was the day my first son was due, and I was so excited because I could tell people that he was born on 9-11 because it was a huge emergency.  Fortunately, he came late because later that day would be forever remembered as the anniversary of the terror attacks. The…

  • Days of the Dead

    Halloween and the Day of the Dead just passed.  These last few weeks have just whizzed by as I have been reorganizing the household and taking on several projects simultaneously.  I finally have time now to dedicate an entry to those who have passed away. My first brush with death happened when I was around…

  • The Fast and Furious Life of Liz B.

    “She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you’ll know loss the rest of your life.” ~ Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao She was my roommate and bestie.  She stripped at the place where there were hundreds of beautiful girls and one ugly one.  But Liz was not…

  • The Man Who Spoke Horrors

    It has been many years since she met the man who of spoke horrors.  Pathos was in his past while his name goes unremembered like the numbers on his skin, a shame I cannot recall it.  He was a guest in our junior high school English class, recounting the hell of the Holocaust that bore…