Hosea's Blog

There is no Homeric Hymn to Hekate, or none extant. There is an Orphic Hymn to her, and Hesiod praises her extensively in the Theogony . Bu...

Then early Tuesday morning, Schmidt followed up with this email, addressed to Marie, to me, and to his mom's old friend, Georgie . The h...

The first update came just a day later, in response to an email from Marie asking what Schmidt needed in the way of comfort. Not much to rec...

When I woke up, Schmidt was sleeping on the sofa in the living room, next to Ma's bed. Apparently at 1:00 in the morning Ma had gotten o...

Ma Schmidt stared intently off to one side of me—not at me!—and asked, "What did you say?" (I hadn't said anything, and there ...

I had been planning to leave today. But a couple of days ago I offered to Schmidt to stay on for a bit longer, because he really is going to...

Ma Schmidt woke up to go to the bathroom at maybe 6:45 in the morning, or so. On her way back to bed, her legs crumpled beneath her. Schmidt...