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6 days ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
On my last afternoon in Prague, I set out for Kafka’s grave. But having misread the guidebook, I ended up stumbling around a muddy cemetery for over an hour before I found someone to ask for directions. The security guard explained that Kafka was buried elsewhere, in the Jewish cemetery. Obviously. I raced up the road, trying to get there before it closed for the day. I was too late: the tall iron gates were already locked.
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1 week ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Yesterday Dave and I drove back from Toronto to London where my mother is in the hospital awaiting a spot in a long term care home. She has Alzheimer’s and can no longer live on her own. Although it’s an emotional time, I often choose to feel no emotion so I can just get through it all—looking for appropriate care homes and visiting her in the hospital with no end in sight. As soon as any feelings come up, I shove them back down to keep my emotional state—dead inside.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Support Send My Love to AnyoneSupport Send My Love to Anyone by signing up for a monthly or yearly subscription, liking this post, or sharing itBig heartfelt thanks to all of the subscribers and contributors who make this project possible!
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Winner of the 2024 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize Finalist for the 2024 VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award Finalist for the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award Finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award Finalist for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Anecdotesby Kathryn Mockler Book*hug Press, 2023 Publisher’s Description With dreamlike stories and dark humour, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining...
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Thanks everyone who donated!In May we raised over $800 for the I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You Fundraiser and Draw.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
There are some parts of London, Ontario that still give off the feeling of London in the 1980s. Walking home from a restaurant, Dave and I came upon this scene. The white brick building used to be Papa’s Pizza. When I posted it on IG, a friend who read my first book, Onion Manwhich was set in London, commented, “Onion Man vibes.” So true. It’s strange to walk around your home town especially when most of the memories are not great.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
I remember wondering, as many kids do, Where was I before I was born? The answer reminds me of an exercise meant to help sighted people imagine complete blindness. Most people close their eyes, and think darkness. The exercise goes like this: raise both arms out to your sides, then slowly move them back until they disappear from your peripheral vision. Now ask yourself: What color is the air behind your head? It’s easier to imagine the dark than nothing at all.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
When I was in high school, I bought the Violent Femmes self-titled album. Excited to listen to it, I threw the album cover on the coffee table and blared it on our stereo. When my mom came home from work, she looked down at the album cover and said in disgust, “Violent Women? Why would you listen to an album called Violent Woman?” At the time, I rolled my eyes. But later listening to the lyrics—some of them are pretty terrible at times even incel-ish, but the music still sounds good.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
There is a patient in the bed beside my mother’s who I’ll call Janet who is suffering greatly and is likely on the wait list for long-term care like my mother. She’s blind in one eye and not able to move around on her own but seems to be more cognizant of her surroundings unlike my mother who needs to be reminded repeatedly that she’s in the hospital. Janet can’t use the call button and screams “help me, help me” at the top of her lungs to get the attention of the nurses or psw’s.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
I’m so please to report that we raised over 800 for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund for with the I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You Fundraiser and Draw!Congratulations to Kevin Wilson! Look for Kevin’s interview in the coming weeks!Thanks everyone who donated.
