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Tag Archives: death
The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-16: Lucille Clifton, RIP
Lucille Clifton reading two poems at the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Poet, rest in peace. Joshua Wade admits to murder of Mindy Schloss, but also Della Brown. RIP to them. He will spend life in prison. http://bit.ly/aeCdf2 # Just learned of the death of Lucille Clifton on Saturday. A poet of “profundity, earthiness [...]
My story of 2009
Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.
Posted in About writing, Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner, depression Also tagged Alaska Commons, Alaska Judicial Council, Alaska Legislature, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Anchorage Press, Arliss Sturgulewski, Bent Alaska, cave, Celtic Diva, Columbia Sussex, couch, Crossed Genres, Dad, Dan Sullivan, Dave, Eddie Burke, Floridana Alaskiana v2.5, Grandpa Claude, Green family, Green-Lieght family, grey, Grrlzlist, Heather Aronno, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, James Bopp Jr., Jane Angvik, Janson Jones, Jesse, John Aronno, Julius, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, lima beans, Linda Kellen Biegel, Mark, Mark Begich, Melz published work, Mer, Miller v. Carpeneti, Mom, my apartment, NaNoWriMo 2009, Nicholas Hughes, One in 10, Palin ethics complaints, PrideFest, Progressive Alaska (blog), Ptery, Sarah Palin, Sean Cockerham, SOSAnchorage.net, Stef Gingrich, Summer of Hate, sunflowers, True Diversity Dinner 2009, Väi the cat, veto, Vic Fischer, violence against women, Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR), writing 2 Comments
Theodicy (poem)
Nine years ago, in July 2000, my friend Wendy’s daughter Jessie was killed by a drunk driver. I wrote this poem for Wendy. But mourning can be a hard & private thing, & I didn’t want to intrude — it took me a year to feel able to give it to her. We talked today [...]
Deaths
Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it. The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]
Posted in Greens, Journal Also tagged cancer, candle, Dad, David Carradine, Farrah Fawcett, Jerri Nielsen, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Mom, poem, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College 1 Comment
Remembering Nicholas Hughes (1962–2009)
Nicholas Hughes: a wildlife biologist at University of Alaska Fairbanks who died by his own hand in March 2009. Something tells me his family, friends, colleagues, & partner saw him as something far more than one the headlines over the past week have painted him as — the putative victim of his mother's "suicide gene." His death was a tragedy, yes: but a tragedy because it was a loss of him & for all who knew him. And for many of those, like me, who didn't.
Posted in depression Also tagged Nicholas Hughes, suicide, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, the pit 3 Comments
Didn't notice when I took it….
Me, today First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At lunchtime I decided to take a brief walk to take pics of the snow for [...]
How it feels
Today’s Start Walking blog: Tuesday, 11 July 2006: How it feels One thing I’ve noticed more & more lately is how good it feels now to walk. Even going up hills, as I did this morning on my bus stop walk: I remember how just last year, when my car at the time was out [...]
Posted in No Way Way, Start Walking Also tagged Melz health philosophy, Mom, Start Walking 2006 Leave a comment
Sunflowers for my mother
Mom, these are some of the sunflowers Mark’s work sent for Dad, because they were your favorite flower. I was always lousy at remembering Mother’s Day or your birthday early enough to get a card to you. But Mom, today I remember & love you. I’m taking good care of myself. I promise.
The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-25: Global warming