Doug shares openly about many layers of grief from the death of his mom to being estranged from his kids. He talks about his mom who would say Kindness is the best thing. He says that thinking the best of people is his strength and can also be his weakness. He shares how in his grief he had to protect himself which doesn’t come naturally so he leaned into other people’s words. We love that he said grief is for everybody. Everybody experiences it. “All I can do is allow myself to experience grief and have empathy for others grieving.”

Doug Chase is a writer and retired bookseller living in Oregon with his spouse and two ridiculous cats. His writing has appeared in City of Weird: Thirty Otherworldly Portland Tales, The Untold Gaze, and Deep Overstock Issue 7: Horror, as well as a few places online. He has been a regular reader at the Burnt Tongue reading series and a few other events in Portland, and hosts a regular reading series with his own writing group and special guests. 

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