Tag Archives: suicide

What a Painting Reveals

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Tricia

My remarkable friend Naomi in Kyoto, has generously featured a collage of mine on her website’s Chasing Writing in Art link. It’s humbling to be there with so many amazing artists. Here’s my collage and a few words. Please check out Naomi’s site … Continue reading →

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Exquisite Grief

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Tricia

These last (I hope) wintry days, I want to hunker down and hibernate. Call me when the daffodils are in bloom and all the last chunks of snow have melted. I’ll be reading. While not able to hide out under … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings | Tagged books, books on grief, Grief, healing, memoir, motherhood, suicide, time | 6 Comments

The Next Big Thing ‘Blog Hop’

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Tricia

Some time ago, the wonderful Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair tagged me to participate in an online ‘blog-hop’ or ‘blog-tour’. If this were a relay race, my teammates would be wondering where the hell I was. Well, … Continue reading →

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy.

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Tricia

The Sunday New York Times this week has three front page stories that disturbed me: President Claims Shooting as a Hobby, and the White House Offers Evidence By PETER BAKER and MARK LANDLER Pete Souza/The White House In a photo released by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings, Uncategorized | Tagged aging, Grief, living with addiction, Love, memoir, suicide, time, work | 1 Comment

Naked Suicide

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Tricia

Recently, the number of visitors to my blog increased incredibly. Why? The piece on the Newtown tragedy perhaps? It wouldn’t be my Department of Motor Vehicle post…who from Columbia, Romania or Turkey would be interested in that? No. The hits … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Grief, healing, stats, suicide, time, writing | 2 Comments

Moral Injury after War

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Tricia

Last week at the library, I picked up a book from a display set up for Veteran’s Day. Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini. The authors, themselves having lived with the consequences of … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings | Tagged Grief, healing, living with addiction, solitude, suicide, veteran, war | 4 Comments

How Much Does It Hurt?

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Tricia

I been having thinking about what I wrote in my last post, suggesting that hurricanes are not as terrible as war. It’s the suffering-comparison part that I’ve had second thoughts about. Over the last few post-storm days, as neighbors share … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings | Tagged cancer, Grief, healing, living with addiction, suicide, time, war | 3 Comments

Paying Attention for What’s Next

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Tricia

What next? I’ve been batting this question around quite a bit, especially inspired by seasonal changes. Back-to-school activity, Monarchs frenetically flying around in migration prep, evening and morning temperature drops, these shifts into autumn prompt my own search for another … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings | Tagged back to school, Bosnian war, Grief, healing, living with addiction, memoir, morning, nature, seasons, solitude, suicide, time, war, writing | 2 Comments

A Closet of Journals

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Tricia

Stashed in my closet is a plastic bin overflowing with journals of scribbled emotions, recordings of events, travel notes. From adolescence up until a few years ago, I compulsively filled notebooks with thoughts, thrills, anxieties and dreams. It was as … Continue reading →

Posted in Seasonal Musings | Tagged Bosnian war, journal, Kyoto, living with addiction, memoir, motherhood, neighborhood, suicide, time, travel, United Nations, war, work, writing | 4 Comments

About Grief

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Tricia

During the run of Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking in June, I was invited to write a guest post on grief for the Westport Country Playhouse’s blog. Here it is: A story not so different than my own June … Continue reading →

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