by KimBoo York | Jun 17, 2012 | Mourning
It’s always the holidays, isn’t it? Father’s Day (US) is today, and so my social media feeds are all filled with people sending love to their fathers or spouses, and fathers thanking their families for dedicating a day to them. Some of us post comments about how much...
by KimBoo York | Jun 14, 2012 | Atheism, Recommendations
I was lucky to watch this video of Sam Harris earlier today, and I want to share it with you because I feel he touches on some important topics concerning death and atheism. As usual, Sam Harris discusses these profound matters much more cogently than I can, and with...
by KimBoo York | May 16, 2012 | Reflections
I think maybe I’ve finally nailed this beast. Check out the updated About This Blog page for the full low-down of the new mission, but suffice to say, the focus has narrowed down to what is probably a really small demographic (because that’s how I roll):...
by KimBoo York | Mar 19, 2012 | Mourning
This letter is something I wrote about three months after my father died. It’s hard for me to read this letter; I was 26 and I think both my youth and my naiveté are pretty obvious, as well as my grief. I’ve changed a lot in the years since then. But I...
by KimBoo York | Mar 12, 2012 | Reflections
We all want the Happy Ending, no matter how unlikely. I am still looking for it, and in the meantime, I own boxes and boxes of my parents’ keepsakes that I do not know what to do with. They were a unique sort of pack rats, keeping documents more than things, so...
