I haven’t used this platform in a long time, so I’m not even sure who is here to see this now, but Rachel passed away earlier this evening. She was in the hospital for what we thought was some kind of sinus infection and the combination of the various drugs she was given, along, perhaps, with one of her tumors (probably a cervical spine tumor) caused her to lose oxygen. The lack of oxygen, even though it was for such a short period, caused damage to her brain. She was pronounced brain dead today.

I met Rachel here. I posted one of those stupid memes that’re meant to goad people they have a crush on you and Rachel actually had the guts to do so. We began talking, flirting, and falling in love. When we first started dating, I was unemployed and she was living in run down dorms on UNLV campus. It was a mess in the most beautiful way.

But since that moment, I have loved Rachel, I have loved my wife, for 9 beautiful and wonderful years. And now all of that is over. Letting go of her hand this evening was the most difficult thing I have ever done.

Hanging with a cool stray (besides the first photo, I’ve been editing him into random stock images). Names he has been given thus far:

Diva

Scone

Anemia

Dust bowl

[Image info: text from a review of Melinda Cooper's *Family Values* on Goodreads. it reads as follows: "highly rated by academic inflation, but has no idea wtf she is talking about.

case in point:

"While neoliberals called for an ongoing reduction in budget allocations dedicated to welfare — intent on undercutting any possibility that the social wage might compete with the free-market wage — neoconservatives endorsed an expanding role for the state in the regulation of sexuality. Despite their differences, however, neoliberals and neoconservatives converged on the

necessity of reinstating the family as the foundation of social and economic order. Their alliance would profoundly shape the direction of social policy over the following decades, culminating in Clinton’s radical welfare reform of 1996."

absolute non-understanding of what neoliberalism is."