My grandmother has been and is with me so often. So many reminders in the form of flowers in my garden, lyrics of songs. I was born to be in love mainly with ghosts.

Aches and pains can be our ghosts...if you inherited a challenging condition from a lost loved one.

Erasure means being in a closet whose door cannot be opened from within. The weight of a million goons holding it closed from the outside keeps you trapped, secret.

Were you once accused of being an Indigo Child? And, are you now coming into the realization it was (always) autism?

A dog can unapologetically fart every five minutes and still have better manners than some adult people.

Some days, you're just on the edge of going feral and disappearing to the woods, but the dog deserves a cozy house, so off to work.

Days drag, weeks plod, but semesters? Don't blink.