Tag: Widower
-
A home forever
Good Friday seemed a good day to do it. I put a down payment on a new home today. This one will be permanent, as in forever, ha-ha. A grave site.
-
S. for save my sorry ass
A year ago I set out on the road to God. Renata de Dios was my guide. She said she was a messenger from God. There was a storm. We lost track of each other. I turned back. I went back to my house, the ghost-ridden lowly bungalow.
-
The road from grief to Zen
To help me in my seemingly endless grief I am revisiting the Zen literature of Japanese and Chinese writers and poets — Ryokan, Bashō, Buson, Issa.
-
Hermit life, an introduction
The first requisite of the hermit life is to have an animal in the house, a pet, you prefer the word companion, generally four-legged, unless your companion is a bird.
-
The kitchen adventures of a clueless widower
One day I will write my own version of that wonderful book ‘The Joy of Cooking’ — my wife’s Bible in the kitchen. My version will be called ‘The Hell of Cooking.’
-
A miracle happened last night
I have been snowed in for two days. When the Nor’easter began to ease up Thursday afternoon I went outside and waded through a foot-and-a-half of snow…
Mary Saves the Day 