Tag Archives: loneliness

Dangling by a Thread of Hope

Posted on February 4, 2025 by mitchteemley

My Real Memoir I’d just turned twenty-five, and was recovering from multiple goodbyes, while pushing back against that old recurring sense of purposelessness. So I clung to what remained: I still had friends, even if the tide had carried some away. And … Continue reading →

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One Goodbye Leads to Another, and Another…

Posted on January 28, 2025 by mitchteemley

Image by Tama66 My Real Memoir Mom grew weary of wandering alone in the big Coyote Hills house. A year-and-a-half had passed since my father died, and a year since I’d moved out to be near my school of the arts. Thanks … Continue reading →

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Compassion

Posted on May 26, 2024 by mitchteemley

“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, … Continue reading →

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A Secret Tragedy

Posted on August 6, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Dan Circa (dailymail.com) The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. Gina had unwittingly adopted a dragon, deeply offending the … Continue reading →

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Isolation Sucks, and yet…

Posted on April 18, 2020 by mitchteemley

We seem to have hit critical mass. More than any other time during the pandemic people are suffering the effects of isolation: loneliness, depression, anger (domestic violence is up), longing for escape (drug sales are soaring). But if we to … Continue reading →

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