Category Archives: Family

Monday Musings: The Hypothetical Musings of a Hypothetical Stoner, Offered Hypothetically…

Posted on January 15, 2024 by dbjackson

This will come as a surprise to none of you, but I was a stoner when I was in high school. And college. And for a good part of graduate school. I am fine with revealing this, because, while I … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: The Emotional Challenge of Writing

Posted on January 8, 2024 by dbjackson

Whenever I work with writers who are at the outsets of their careers — whether I’m editing their work for freelance or for an anthology, or teaching them in a workshop, or just talking shop on a convention panel — … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year and a Musings Post Celebrating Grief (Yep!)

Posted on January 3, 2024 by dbjackson

For years now, I have written New Year’s posts, often more than one per holiday. In December, I have often taken stock of the year that’s ending, evaluating my accomplishments, examining my disappointments, trying to make sense of an entire … Continue reading →

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Checking In and Saying Thanks

Posted on November 15, 2023 by dbjackson

It’s been a little over three weeks since Alex, our older daughter, lost her two and a half year battle with cancer. It feels like more. It feels like less. We have had celebrations of her life in New York … Continue reading →

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Alexis Jordan Berner-Coe, 1995-2023

Posted on October 23, 2023 by dbjackson

This is the post I never wanted to write. The one I dreaded, the one that was, not so long ago, unthinkable, and, more recently, heartrendingly inevitable. Our darling older daughter, Alexis Jordan Berner-Coe, has died, after a two and … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Musings (Yeah, I Know…): Another (Brief) Update

Posted on September 19, 2023 by dbjackson

I’ve started this post several times, only to flame out after a few lines. The truth is, I have nothing I want to write. I am in New York again, staying with my older daughter, doing what I can to … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Musings: (No, That’s Not a Typo) Let’s Spend a Flight Delay Together

Posted on September 13, 2023 by dbjackson

I have little to say professionally this week, but I have been thinking a good deal about a great many things. So, I’m double-dipping on musings . . . . On Monday of this week, after a busy weekend in … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Family Update

Posted on September 11, 2023 by dbjackson

We are in New York this weekend — an impromptu trip to help our older daughter who is suffering through some rough side-effects after her most recent treatments. We are dealing with a lot right now. Her most of all. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings (On Tuesday): Feeling the Loss of Jimmy Buffett

Posted on September 5, 2023 by dbjackson

The news of Jimmy Buffett’s death this past weekend, hit me surprisingly hard, and I am still trying to figure out why. Buffett, the “Roguish Bard of Island Escapism,” as the New York Times called him in an online obituary, … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Confessions Of A Boring Old Guy

Posted on August 28, 2023 by dbjackson

A few weeks ago, while we were vacationing in Colorado, I got high. When I was young — high school, college, and into grad school, I used to get high a lot. Too much, probably. But upon marrying Nancy and … Continue reading →

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