My friend, our friend, Lisa died last night. While I was sleeping in my bed, beside my husband, with my two small children sleeping in their rooms – she and hers were saying goodbye. It is what it is, Lisa would say. Whether we were talking about her dying or internet trolls or the old [...]

I have to be honest with you. I’m really behind from the quick trip down to Miami and my head is… well… fucked, at the moment. A good friend has finally made the decision to accept hospice care, and it’s difficult not to think or write about everything through the murky film of that news. [...]

When he first suggested it back in March, I told him he was out of his mind. “There’s no fucking way my kids are going to be gone for 6 weeks, Jared. Do you have any idea how long 6 weeks is?” “But you said they could go visit my parents over the summer…” “Yeah, [...]