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Category Archive for 'Mortality'

The End In Sight

Throughout my life I had heard rumours that things change when you reach your fifties. In my twenties, thirties, and forties I laughed at men who grew fatter, lost most of their hair, staggered sleepily to the toilet in the middle of the night, and who mysteriously talked about bits that struggled to function. It [...]

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Grief

Why is it that real, gut-wrenching grief is so difficult to handle in other people? Why is is that we can respond to broken bones but pretend that broken hearts are unimportant?
Just imagine that you are paddling your canoe down a river, watching the birds and bees and butterflies. You are so relaxed and enchanted [...]

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