About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Tag Archives: death
May
04
2012
Our Lives After Their Death
There’s a full moon tomorrow. I’m in a weird headspace. In social media, I’m seeing snippets here and there from those I’m connected with, remembering the passing of our good friend Derek Miller last year. My thoughts on Derek, as his death took the world by storm by way of an incredible blog post, were [...]
Feb
15
2012
An Open Letter To My Mother
I wrote the following post on the 6th anniversary of my mother’s death. Now, it’s more than 6 years later, tonight being the 13th anniversary of when her tumour was found. I’ve been meaning to post this writing here for years, but dragging it up is, well, heavy. Tonight, I’m more bothered by loss than I have [...]
Posted in Autobiographical, Being me Also tagged grief, mourning, remembering, when mothers die Leave a comment
Feb
13
2012
The Red Pill Makes You Smaller
Whitney Houston died this weekend, just the latest in celebrity deaths caused by prescription drug abuse. There’s nothing more hypocritical than the American War on Drugs when this parade of legal abuse deaths goes marching on. Doctors everywhere just lining their pockets from commissions based on prescribing drugs, corporations raking it in hand-over-fist as a population [...]
Posted in Current Events, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary) Also tagged brittany murphy, Drugs, heath ledger, intoxication, michael jackson, overdose, pills, prescriptions, whitney houston 2 Comments
Wow, so this posting got long. It should probably be separated. I just don’t have the emotional-editorial prowess for that, so I’ll leave it all jumbled together. I’m sure as the days and weeks move on, I’ll become more cemented in what I believe about Derek’s legacy in the blogging world, but, for now, I’m [...]
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged art, blogging, cancer, Communication, craft, Derek K. Miller, derek miller, legacies, Penmachine, technology, writing 2 Comments
There’s something really right about how people around the world are being moved to tears at the amazing end-of-life “The Last Post” published posthumously by my friend Derek K. Miller. If you don’t know the story of Derek, you can read the Vancouver Sun’s tribute to him here. I didn’t know him well. I had [...]
Posted in Journalling, keeping it real, writing Also tagged blogger, blogging, burnaby, cancer, Derek K. Miller, derek miller, legacies, Penmachine, The Last Post, writing 4 Comments
Memories of the Peripheral Dead