kelly | August 30, 2009
I quit World of Warcraft again. It was past the point that my polite husband wanted to stage an intervention because he recognizes how fruitless that can be. The voices in my head were surreptitiously building a megaphone behind a Rita Hayworth picture and scattering the bits of scraps out in the garden. Everything came [...]
kelly | February 21, 2008
sleeping that first night was quite a challenge. i slept lightly and fitfully. if i wasn’t bumping it and causing pain, i was waking up because i wasn’t causing myself pain and therefore concerned something was wrong. i washed and A&D’d it fairly dilligently for the first couple of days. it was still pretty raw [...]
kelly | February 17, 2008
since this is largely about the tattoo, i’ll skim over the first part of the day. despite the unfriendly weather and terrain, ashes were scattered, along with a few silver dollars and some roses. it was harder than i thought it would be. we listened to one of my dad’s favorite songs as we drove [...]
kelly | February 16, 2008
my mother has been struggling with the right “moment” to scatter my dad’s ashes. her first targets, their anniversary and new year’s day, had come and gone with a confession of “i’m just not ready yet.” a few weeks ago, she had a new idea. we would scatter his ashes on valentine’s day, and finish [...]
