aging

What Aging Looks Like.

{This is an excerpt of a post I published in May of 2012, after my grandfather passed away. I wrote it a month before he died.) I began visiting him at the rehab facility, with trepidation. I am not an “old people” person. I’m afraid of offending their sensibilities.  I worry about not being able …

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Grieving

My grandfather passed away today, at the age of 88. Here is something I wrote last month: Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. My paternal grandmother lived in Florida when she died, in 2005. She’d been living …

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