When I’m in It

January 4, 2020March 19, 2020 ~ Susan Fischbach Isaacs

Woman and dog; English studio portrait, c. 1900. Photo copyright Mary E. Thurston, Argus Communications, Allen , TX. It’s hard to see my way out when I’m in it Long, impossible weeks stretch ahead, fatigue, disinterest -- in anything; even my favorite foods don’t appeal I know -- because I know -- that there is … Continue reading When I’m in It

Helpless

October 26, 2019November 15, 2019 ~ Susan Fischbach Isaacs

Photo by Susan Fischbach Isaacs Less than 24 hours ago I received the horrific news that another of my sons’ childhood playmates is dead from heroin addiction. I feel helpless as the parents of these young men wail in untenable agony, their own helplessness now embodied in the corpses of their sons. Imagining their pain … Continue reading Helpless

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Formed by an upbringing in the prairie town of Faith, South Dakota and a lifetime of Catholicism.

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