There are people that save lives as well as those that help it end. For every individual that helps preserve a life there's... More > a person willing to accept the inevitable. Helping someone waiting for death come to terms with their own mortality and face it with dignity is as significant as bringing a new life into the world. It is a task not for the faint of heart but the strong of spirit. Only an enduring persona can face the quietus of life. < Less

A young man remembers a seemingly uneventful evening spent with his wife, the mother of his child, before she passed away.... More > That night is a poignant reminder of their love. < Less

The sun's already high when I finally get home from the airport. My cheeks sting with dry tears and my contacts hurt from... More > the sun, despite my sunglasses. I turn off the engine and sit, finishing my cigarette, unsure of what to do next. The summer I've waited so long for is now ending and in just a week I'll be starting college.

I sit in quiet reflection, yearning to remember all the details of the events that have recently expired. I long to have Tawny next to me, laughing her big laugh, teasing me the way she always does. I knew from the moment I left the airport I would never have her in my life the way she's always been. We’ve spent nearly every day for the past two years together, inseparable, but I no longer have the security of that controlled environment. The reality of the world around me started to haunt me as I drove those busy freeways home, alone.

- from "Before September Falls" < Less

The sun's already high when I finally get home from the airport. My cheeks sting with dry tears and my contacts hurt from... More > the sun, despite my sunglasses. I turn off the engine and sit, finishing my cigarette, unsure of what to do next. The summer I've waited so long for is now ending and in just a week I'll be starting college.

I sit in quiet reflection, yearning to remember all the details of the events that have recently expired. I long to have Tawny next to me, laughing her big laugh, teasing me the way she always does. I knew from the moment I left the airport I would never have her in my life the way she's always been. We’ve spent nearly every day for the past two years together, inseparable, but I no longer have the security of that controlled environment. The reality of the world around me started to haunt me as I drove those busy freeways home, alone.

- from "Before September Falls" < Less