Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Contacting the Spirits


Ghosts of my dead don’t dance around the bed at night.

But I’m asleep, and Evelyn would be a gentle ghost and not want to wake me – no screaming, no rattling of chains, no dancing around with flaming swords. Yet there have been enough events I can’t explain that make me think she is trying to make contact.

Cultures and religions around the world have boatloads of beliefs about what happens to people when they die. 

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