(posted first on my personal blog here: https://hfquinn.wordpress.com/2023/02/26/crying-in-public/) It’s been a long time since I’ve...

(Note: This is an older blog post from my very neglected Wordpress blog, https://hfquinn.wordpress.com/) My favorite cousin recently lost...

My oldest, Paisley, had a cold over the weekend. Saturday night she woke me up around 2 am, crying and coughing. I went in myself, which...

I found this video the other day. It’s one of the many videotapes that my brother saved out of my mom’s/stepdad’s garage in San Clemente,...

Lately, I’ve been working on revising an old essay that I wrote for my MFA thesis about nostalgia. Some revisions come fairly easy. This...

The following was originally posted on my blog Memento Mori I’ve had this name, “Memento Mori,” reserved for a blog for a long time, and...

When I checked into the Niland Inn, Leon, the owner, told me was that he was putting me in his nicest room, the same room where just a...