July 4, 2018. The last day I ever spoke to my grandma. Her last trip around the sun. I completed the rough demo for “I Can’t Make You Stay,” a song I wrote shortly after learning of her terminal diagnosis (recording below). It’s about death as much as it is about love, to me anyway, […]
Category: Love
Two Cancelled Sessions (and the Sad Reason Why) – Therapy Journal #9
The day after my evening of exposure therapy with Claire, the extroverted girl from the Hamptons, I found out my aunt was dying. Or at least, that she was probably going to die. Back in 2019, my aunt Rebecca, a non-smoker, was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. The cancer had spread (again)—this time to her […]
All About Dating – Therapy Blog #7
“When is the relaunch?” my therapist asked. I’d just told her that I was about to enter the dating scene again after an extended hiatus. “Soon,” I told her. “I’m having some lady in Bangladesh fix up my profile pictures as we speak.” “Oh yeah?” Shannon, my therapist, asked with a laugh. “Yeah, just some […]