Living with Loss
I just finished reading “All the Light we Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr and already I am missing the characters. The novel takes place during WWII in a small walled…
Tag: grief
Keeping the Light On.
Photo: Reuters/Lisi Niesner Have you ever been wrestling with demons in the darkness only to discover, when the light comes on, that the demons are not who you thought they…
Grief Lifeline
He held a coiled manila line in his hands with what looked like leather reinforcement for twenty inches or so… “No, it’s not leather,” he said, “it’s a rubber hose.”…
Remembering
I haven’t updated my CPR training since high school. I got to thinking about this because I was asked to make a new canvas bag for a “Lifesling” which is…
The Messy Process of Art
“This is not going to work.” That’s what I said to myself in the middle of my latest bookbinding project. It was a commissioned piece… a wedding guest book for…
The Art of Saying Goodbye
Not one boss, but ten of them. That’s what freelance bookkeeping is like. And each boss has a different way of doing things: the process is different, the results they…
