Entries in Life (8)
Cancer, Life, Love in Personal Reflection, Relationships One Year In The Shadow
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 9:15AM | by Otter 
"I had been speculating earlier this week as to why [Harry Potter author] J.K. Rowling never mentioned the presence of Dementors at St. Mungo's. I'm pretty sure they are responsible for slowing the rate of time in addition to their usual effects."
Cancer, Chemotherapy, Death, Harry Potter, Hospitals, Life, Susan R. in Cancer, Personal Reflection, Relationships 21 Years Down The Road: What Happened on I-10 East
Monday, July 4, 2011 at 8:41AM | by Otter Sometimes the memory seems like a bird that I almost catch in my hand. Some nights, I think that maybe my memory plays tricks on me.
But I never wanted to leave that Interstate, I know that. I know that it was with some difficulty that I acknowledged it was time for me to go.
Death, Life in Personal Reflection Christmas Reflection, With Adult Beverage: ChristMouse Eggnog
Friday, December 24, 2010 at 5:20PM | by Otter 
It can be tough to find an open liquor store on Christmas Eve in Central Illinois, whatever Dan Fogelberg may say, or so we were all thinking. But we also thought of the mouse, and whether it had family at home waiting up for it, and what it means to cash in your mouse-chips on Christmas Eve.
Adult Beverage, Christmas, Death, Eggnog, Life, Mouse in Personal Reflection, Recipe, Spirituality Being Good In The Dark: Suffering With Cancer Like Good People
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 7:35AM | by Otter Theater structures emotion. And around here have usually preferred our lives to resemble a musical comedy, with lots of absurdity and silliness. It isn't that we don't take ourselves seriously. It's that we know that seriousness isn't always in the long face or the serious talk.
Really, it's in love. And really good love knows how to laugh, when to weep. Mostly how not to stare unendingly at itself and its needs. In fact good comedy takes life very seriously.
Cancer, Chemotherapy, Death, Life, Oncology, Psalm 22, undefined in Cancer, Personal Reflection, Spirituality, Suffering Let's Have A Funeral. Let's Live.
Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 6:15PM | by Otter Maybe it’s not true that you have to be playful to learn, that you can tuck up your ethical self and force yourself to memorize the things you need to know. But at the base of it, learning comes so much more easily where there is a desire, something you need and want.
The irony is that where there is desire, you’re almost unteachable.
Take the Man and the Woman in the Garden of Delight.
Children, Death, Eros, Life, Original Sin in Personal Reflection 
