Category: Chronic Illness
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Of Creativity and Chronic Illness
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It was January 27 last year that my mother died. We had been estranged for just under 15 years. I asked my sister what she needed me to do, and at her request I reached out to mom’s brother, our uncle Robb. But he was missing somehow, and his baffled…
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Of Figures and Foldlines; or, The Origami Suit
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I had a lot of down time that year. It was not in the sense of having no pressing obligations, but of being indisposed and thus unable to fulfill obligations. My body had decided there would be no more pushing through. It seemed to realize that there has been a…