http://herbadmother.com/2009/08/voices-in-the-dark/ Bad Is The New Good Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:10:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://herbadmother.com/2009/08/voices-in-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-30321 Time Enough For Telling | Her Bad Mother Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:51:39 +0000 http://herbadmother.com/?p=937#comment-30321 [...] I haven’t been able to narrate, but not for want of stories. It’s just that, the story right now is so overwhelming. And what passages in the story are not so overwhelming (the moment when, for example, I laughed out loud at my mother and the funeral home assistant for dithering over whether to quantify my father’s remains in terms of measuring cups or coffee spoons) I am simply trying to enjoy for the break that they are, in the here and now. [...] [...] I haven’t been able to narrate, but not for want of stories. It’s just that, the story right now is so overwhelming. And what passages in the story are not so overwhelming (the moment when, for example, I laughed out loud at my mother and the funeral home assistant for dithering over whether to quantify my father’s remains in terms of measuring cups or coffee spoons) I am simply trying to enjoy for the break that they are, in the here and now. [...]

]]> http://herbadmother.com/2009/08/voices-in-the-dark/comment-page-1/#comment-30260 Here Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:44:17 +0000 http://herbadmother.com/?p=937#comment-30260 [...] I went into my father’s home, a thing that I was afraid to do. I don’t have words yet to explain that fear, nor do I have words to explain – to [...] [...] I went into my father’s home, a thing that I was afraid to do. I don’t have words yet to explain that fear, nor do I have words to explain – to [...]

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