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The Signal And The Noise

Posted On November 16, 2020

November 9th marked the 5th year of my father’s passing. I don’t know if it’s a blessing things have been so absolutely ridiculous at the hospital that I glossed over it until today, or if I feel guilty about it. Regardless, I didn’t want it to go unmarked. It would perhaps have been impossible to […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: alzheimer's, dad, death, mom

A Physical Manifestation Of Pain

Posted On November 2, 2020

Is it me, or do things hurt worse and cut much deeper as an adult than they did when we were children? I wonder if it has to do with our years of experience. The longer we’re alive, the more change messes with us, and we therefore feel losses so much more than if we […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, depression, life, Writing

The Tao of Mourning

Posted On November 30, 2015

My husband tells me I can be a very foolish gweilo sometimes. Frequently. Almost all of the time, really. I suspect I share a viewpoint with my recently deceased friend, Roger Margason (aka Dorien Grey), that life ought to be one way, though it frequently decides to do as it damn well pleases and without […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, grieving, life

The Three Year Marathon That Wasn’t

Posted On November 5, 2015

It was about this time three years ago when my father-in-law really started having issues with his health. It began with surgery on an impacted vertebrae in his back, escalated to a diagnosis of cancer, the search for where the cancer spread from, a tumor at the bottom of his spine that left him in […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, life

In Memory of Roger Margason / Dorien Grey

Posted On November 2, 2015

We all have our own unique way of grieving and our hopes of how those will grieve for us one day. Roger Margason, or Dorien Grey (his author pseudonym), passed away yesterday after complications during a procedure on Friday that left his life in the balance for two days. This was unexpected. This was tragic. […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, dorien grey, passing, roger margason

Death and Those Other Pesky Signs of Mortality

Posted On July 18, 2013

I had a dream last week that woke me up in a cold sweat. In it, I was driving in a car with my brother-in-law and father-in-law, which is already slightly morbid since FIL has been gone now since March. We were all sad and talking about how my husband had just passed away a […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, hernia, kidney stones

Wanted: Outback Steakhouse in the Afterlife

Posted On March 25, 2013

I’m not a good patient. Never have been and never will be. I used to find more reasons to get out of bed while sick when I was growing up than my mother did for reasons why I should stay in it. Ironically, when I wanted to stay in bed is exactly the time she […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, father-in-law, grief, mourning, Outback Steakhouse

A Voice in the Present Becomes a Voice in the Past

Posted On March 19, 2013

“And how we face death is at least as important as how we face life, wouldn’t you say?” (James T. Kirk) I was perhaps twelve the last time I saw someone suffering and close to death. I didn’t understand it from a personal aspect, only technically that my grandfather was hallucinating most of the day […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: death, father-in-law, passing

The Beautiful Lie (Or How To Get A White Guy To Shut Up)

Posted On October 15, 2012

Ever wonder how we’d live our lives if we knew from very early on everything we know now? Admit it. We’ve all thought about it. “I’d have gone to see this…I’ve have gone to do that…I’d have spent more time with this person…I’d have slept with all these people before they got old and ugly…I’d […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: alzheimer's, death, retirement

The Power of Maybe

Posted On December 10, 2011

My guy told me more than once after we started going out that he would be surprised if he lived past 30 years old. He couldn’t explain it, there was no rational explanation for it and I think he actually believed it. It really freaked me out when he’d say that. This is an odd […]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: death, family, grandma

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Michigan-based author Kristoffer Gair wrote his first puppet play in 1st Grade and continued writing in one form or another from that point on. Much of it was crap, but there were tiny nuggets of potential mixed in with the likes of Pickle Pony Gets A Puzzle. He spent three of his years at Fraser High School performing in plays, then attended Grand Valley State University where he graduated with degrees in Film & Video and Creative Writing.

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