Tag: Life After Ruth

The Perversity of “Respectable People”

I wrote this piece a while back, but refrained from posting it.  Now I decided to put it up. Reliving the Kavanaugh Syndrome A few weeks ago, I found myself, like many people, irritated with the Kavanaugh debacle unfolding on Capitol Hill.  The gut feeling was so irksome that I’ve had to sit myself down …

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A Bitter-Sweet Return to Carlsbad

Last week, on the last day of August, I was going to join some friends for a bicycle ride around the Oceanside-San Diego area.  But before meeting them, I decided to take a few minutes to visit a certain place in the town of Carlsbad. It was where Ruth and I spent our honeymoon back …

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An Upbeat Grief Song

I came upon this song by Agnetha Faltskog about a month ago.  I have to say, it is the first upbeat grief song I’ve come upon (at least as I interpret it). I suppose other such songs of lost love exist, but this one song perked my ears only because it came across my path …

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A Deer in Headlights

I am like a deer in headlights. An impending crash is about to happen and I don’t know what to do. I have until the end of March to file a case, but I still have nothing to work with.  At the beginning of February, I sent Ruth’s medical records to an oncologist who said …

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