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Alma Alexander

Looking for gratitude

“Write about gratitude” I was told.

Mar 18, 2024

Looking for gratitude

Mar 18, 2024

Unmoored in time

If you are a Doctor Who fan you might remember the Doctor trying to explain time to an non-initiate in Time Lord lore and saying that time…

Oct 15, 2023

Unmoored in time

Oct 15, 2023

The Five Levels Of Grief

There are levels of looking into that void, the emptiness when you have lost somebody — something — that you loved. You might not know…

Sep 24, 2023

The Five Levels Of Grief

Sep 24, 2023

And I will never have roses again

In a handful of days the sun will rise

Jun 23, 2022

And I will never have roses again

Jun 23, 2022

Shadow walking

I remember I wrote a poem once a long time ago — I don’t know what became of it — about how I left a little bit of myself, a shadow self…

Jun 13, 2022

Jun 13, 2022

Caregiving 101: Forgetting Joy

My father died in 2013, leaving as his legacy his widow, my mother, for me to care for. I have been doing that for nearly a decade now —…

Apr 27, 2022

Caregiving 101: Forgetting Joy

Apr 27, 2022

Caregiving 101: Behind the curtain

I had a sweet and blessed childhood and young-adulthood, okay? I admit it. I had grandparents who doted on me (my maternal grandmother was…

Apr 16, 2022

Apr 16, 2022

Uselessness

If I may front-load with a metaphor, life is sort of like a train journey. It’s a funny little train, if you like, and your “car” is often…

Feb 9, 2022

Feb 9, 2022

Too deep for tears

Two days ago it was the first anniversary of my husband’s death. The first year of my widowhood has fled somehow and there are moments in…

Feb 4, 2022

Feb 4, 2022

Solstice

They say it might snow tomorrow. Or now. Who knows?

Dec 22, 2021

Solstice

Dec 22, 2021

Alma Alexander

Alma Alexander

Novelist, short story writer and anthologist living in the Pacific Northwest with the obligatory two writers' cats.

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