Eulogy For My Brother, Ronnie.

My brother, Bernie, died from suicide, the result of alcoholism and depression on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1996. My brother, Ronnie, died from suicide, the result of addiction and depression on Good Friday, April 10, 2008. I have written about that here, in an essay called, April is the Cruelest Month.  Every April I try…

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Death, Be Not Proud

The message came in Saturday evening.  Our dear friend’s sister was dead.  I’ll call her Mary.  My heart sank in an all-too-familiar way.  Not another, I thought.  Not again. My Best Beloved stared at the message on his phone.  I didn’t want to ask, but I’m sure the question was all over my face. “She…

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