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 # … Continue reading

Posted in The Daily Tweets | Tagged , , | Comments Off on The Daily Tweets, 2010-02-16: Lucille Clifton, RIP

My story of 2009

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

Continue reading

Posted in About writing, Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, depression, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Theodicy (poem)

Theodicy for Wendy If they could, these words would wrap around the questions like a cocooning blanket. They’d devise an argument, foolproof, dispelling all nuances of Why? They’d console you moment by moment. They’d answer all your grief. But if … Continue reading

Posted in No Way Way, Poems | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Greens, Journal | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off on Deaths

Rial Eugene Green, 1919–2009

Posted in Greens | Tagged , | 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.

Continue reading

Posted in depression | Tagged , , , , , | 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 … Continue reading

Posted in Greens, Journal | Tagged , | Comments Off on Didn't notice when I took it….

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 … Continue reading

Posted in Greens | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Sunflowers for my mother

Candle

Because I’m thinking a lot about my mom today. This is one of a whole bunch of candles we lit right after I got back from Spokane, two weeks after her death.

Posted in Eyes Remain Open, Greens | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Candles

Because I’m thinking a lot about my mom today….

Posted in Greens | Tagged , , | Comments Off on Candles