• We met in freshman year of high school, but we didn't start dating until after college. We were together for nine years.
• We moved out to Boulder together in January 2016, with our greyhound Tulia. We kept a blog for our families that might give you a taste of her/our sense of humor.
• Nora had a disabling chronic illness during our entire relationship. She worked more intensely on her own healing than I've known anyone to do anything, which was one of a million reasons I admired her.
• Nora died by suicide at the end of February 2024. She had well-articulated political beliefs about everything, and that included making medically assisted dying more broadly available. Her suicide wasn't impulsive and I am certain that it couldn't have been prevented in any reasonable sense. I wish our country could have had the legislation to allow her friends and family to be with her legally as she crossed over.
• Even in the worst of her suffering, she never allowed herself to detach from the broader suffering of the world. She was a brilliant political thinker. Nora was informed by her Jewishness in her opposition of colonialism and capitalism, and at the time of her death, the most important issue to her was a free Palestine. She was one of the bravest people I knew.
• Nora was at the very center of my life and I still feel her presence all the time. I miss her dearly.

Nora's goodbye poem:

Find me in the water
In the trees
In the tiny things crawling
amongst tiny things

My life has been touched by a truly special love, and my goal here is to share some of that feeling with you. As I get around to more writing, I'll link to the posts here.