Walking With Ancestors

Moments. I had to stop counting the number of the dead. I have spent a year watching the numbers and my soul is weary. My beloveds have lost...

Donegal County, from Lonely Planet Most of my life I assumed I was genetically a European mix. After my DNA results came in from Ancestry I ...

We lost almost 100,000 Americans in one month.   We lost almost 100,000 Americans in one month.   I lost a beloved this month. It was cancer...

  Remember when we were horrified the death toll was nearing 100,000? Hold onto some of that horror. Nothing should feel normal right now....

Most of my friends are working from home now (or trying to work from home while also simultaneously acting as IT person for their children a...

I still can’t believe we have lost over 200,000 Americans to this virus. People are done with staying at home. They miss going out. They mis...

This is the night each year where I speak the names of the Recent Dead, which for my purposes is anyone who died since the last time I did m...