Archive - Dirt Nap

Dirt Nap perks back up after a siesta

Jul 18 •

June 2025

What's Going On?

An inflection point as I figure out what to do.

Jun 13 •

May 2025

Jared's Genetic Testing Journey: Did I Inherit Cancer? (Part 3)

My sister asks the big question: Why?

May 23

Jared's Genetic Testing Journey: Did I Inherit Cancer? (Part 2)

How DNA and cancer work, plus a friend makes me bleed.

May 16

One More Question XXIII: Happy Mother's Day?

Our most performative of holidays

May 11

Jared's Genetic Testing Journey: Did I Inherit Cancer? (Part 1)

I'm going to die one of these days, so I might as well narrow down how and when.

May 9 •

Every Funeral Has a Director

How do people who deal with death of every day not allow death to overwhelm them?

May 2

April 2025

The Looming Presence of After-Death Communication

People talk to the dead. Sometimes, the dead talk back.

Apr 25 •

One More Question XXII: This Post is Woke

Ahhh, but ain't that America? Home of the free. Little pink houses for you and me.

Apr 20

Dirt Nap Redux: Eco-Grief, Because The World's on Fire

A rerun because I'm traveling

Apr 18 •

One More Question XXII: One and One is Two, Six and Two is Eight

C'mon baby, dont'cha make me late

Apr 13

Laura Lewis: The Girl Who Tackled Cancer and the Ropes Course (ft. Kate Torok Lewis)

"I have missed her advice over the last three decades, and sometimes get really angry that she was taken from me."

Apr 11

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