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Miriam Olivier
Feb 1, 20227 min read
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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