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February 2026

February 04, 2026

Thank You, Ms. G.

She's not the first regular patient of mine there to pass on, but she was...

March 2025

March 13, 2025

Comfort The Dying; We’re All Dying

It's a simple syllogism: Comfort the dying. Everyone is dying. Therefore, comfort everyone. In this...

August 2023

August 02, 2023

Speaking to the Dead on the Wind Phone

So when I saw that someone had set up a "wind phone" at the Starwood...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

The System Killed Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny, whether he acted reasonably and killed by accident or recklessly and committed manslaughter,...

February 2023

February 10, 2023

Eulogy For A Difficult Brother

How do we eulogize people who were difficult to others and to themselves? And how...

February 04, 2023

My Brother Died Today

But right now I'm tempted to consider whether putting unglamorous photos of dead alcoholics up...

September 2022

September 15, 2022

Parental Death, Ancestor Work, And The Search For Love

My father is five years dead, and his death was a great blow. But I...

October 2019

October 30, 2019

Working with Jizo Bodhisattva at Samhain

Death is the great mystery, the undiscovered country, the unavoidable confrontation with the boundaries of...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Sandman At 30: The Birth Of A Pantheon

Deities are either invented, created, or discovered. And that is a process of story-telling. We...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

Alone, No One Wins Freedom: An Appreciation of Ursula K. Le Guin

I was nine years old, give or take a year or two, and I was...

November 2017

November 16, 2017

I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends

One of the Three Treasures of Buddhism is the sangha, the community of seekers. Budo...

September 2017

September 25, 2017

A Eulogy For My Father, Mark Swiss

We have hopes about an afterlife. I guess some of us have fears -- Dad...

June 2017

June 17, 2017

Remembering Ringo

A heart that never cares is safe from grieving. But that's not what hearts are...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Samhain in the Hospital: My Mother Is Not Dead

And it's occurred to me that the hospital is a liminal space: between life and...

October 17, 2016

One Cup of Coffee

But now I could lose it right here in the cafeteria over this empty coffeepot....

September 2016

September 26, 2016

In Praise of Miss Sue

At one point she told me that she couldn't imagine ever having a job where...

December 2015

December 13, 2015

Death and the Holidays

We sat down to a very subdued Christmas dinner, during which the call came. Leonard...

September 2015

September 14, 2015

When I Die

Now perhaps it's jumping the gun to assume anyone will give a damn, that they...