Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

I don't want to boss anyone and I don't want to be bossed.

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

My reflection in the mirror shows me pink and puffy. I thought pregnant women were to supposed to glow. I am not glowing.

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway.

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.