Manny Matters

Manny wrote, a lot. Sometimes he was so articulate his writing served as that proverbial window. Sometimes you had to work hard and with...

One of my struggles is that of tense. Present tense and past tense. Because Manny is always in my thoughts, by my side, in my bones, he...

Today I attended a Mother's Day luncheon at my son’s school. It was at a beautiful home with a lot of lovely, excited mothers. We were...

Long before X, formerly known as Twitter, I was tweeting. Perhaps I should have copyrighted the word. Because 'Tweet' was ours. We first...

On the 17th of October 2022 I was told that my son, Emanuel, had died by suicide. I don’t remember a lot of what followed, it is a blur...

I started this blog to express my grief after my son, Emanuel, died by suicide. He was just 18 years old. Far from the stigma and shame...