Miriam Olivier
Post Traumatic Bliss
I was carrying all my otherworldly secrets with me. Sometimes at night I would just close my eyes and feel myself shooting through the...
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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20225 min read
He's going to die tonight.
I had been to see him the day before and sat next to him a while as his chest heaved and rattled. I whispered to him. Stroked his...
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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Fighting my way out of a long coma.
The ICU at night is a terrifying nightmare world. Not even Dean Koontz or Steven King could imagine the nights of terror. It was cold and...
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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Waking up from a long coma
I have watched movies about people waking from a coma. They opened their eyes and the fog cleared. It’s nothing like that. Waking up from...
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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20223 min read
Called to come home
Floating. Aeons ago I left the world of men, of form and substance. I am floating away in the universe. I know it is the universe as I...
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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20223 min read
The Coma Stage 3: Limbo in a coma
I have shot out of the hospital. I have long left my body. It was so fast I didn’t even notice it. One second I was hovering somewhere...
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Miriam Olivier
Jan 11, 20226 min read
The Madness Begins
What am I doing here? It’s an easy Sunday morning and I am sitting on a cold concrete floor with my legs stretched out in front of me and...
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Miriam Olivier
May 30, 20088 min read
The Dalai Lama divorce code
If you are dealing with an acrimonious split, you are going to have to call on all your inner calm to separate emotion from logistics....
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Miriam Olivier
May 23, 20086 min read
If You Have to, Leave in Style
Instead of getting married again, I am going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house. – Rod Stewart The first step out...
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Miriam Olivier
May 16, 20084 min read
We have a no-sex deal
Stacy was our third child in six years. On her first birthday, my wife told me that she didn’t want to have sex any more. ‘Not ever...
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Miriam Olivier
Jan 1, 19700 min read
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