Beauty and Terror

It's Pride, my third Pride without my partner of 20 years. Fresh pain, more than I expected. Two days ago I brought my dog Ha...

Frick Park in Spring. Hill between Beechwood and Forbes. When I was 34, my wife encouraged me to get my motorcycle license, somethin...

I play one of Madeleine's favorite recordings, Yo Yo Ma performing Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G Major. In my mind I am in our old h...

Madeleine's angle for why we should move in together, was so that we could have time together after our dates when we weren't arg...

The woman who was once our marriage counselor is now my grief counselor. I recommend marriage counseling. May I give you a head start and ...

When my wife died of lung cancer, poems landed around me in the ruins like ashes after a forest fire.   Raymond Carver’s last book, A ...

I'm waiting for her to come home so I can go to bed. Today I emptied the dishwasher, took the dogs to the park, went grocery shoppi...