LOVE Defined

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DIaZWItxWERRbZDNjZBz6?si=8fc15218e7cc4ebc My sister is dead, I told the bank manager. She isn’t dead. She lives in Washington with her husband, having recently moved from L.A., where we were both born and raised. The bank manager expressed his condolences. He accepted the paperwork from our lawyer to remove my sister's name from our Trust as the … Continue reading LOVE Defined

The Power of Love

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2rdvNjUq0mF0A9VRVQhYMI?si=f4801e17fd9c4045 My son’s guitar teacher was freaking out the other day over the impending arrival of his first child. Beyond a healthy birth, he was consumed with anxiety over the care and feeding of an infant, all the way up through guiding his child through their teen years. As a parent of two tweens, I … Continue reading The Power of Love

On Suicide

I think about suicide constantly. It used to be my out— if life got too...much, I'd leave. Feeling nothing must be better than feeling bad all the time— my rejoinder. My life hasn't been very hard, not like the kids in Oakland hard. I grew up in a middle-class suburban neighborhood, when it was still … Continue reading On Suicide