Another loss in the department...

We learned today that Mari York, whose office is across the hall from mine, died yesterday -- I believe she was 29 or 30, a poet, a lecturer at NKU teaching college writing, women's studies, and literature. Evidently she suffered a seizure while at home... I didn't know Mari as well as others, but we would chat a bit nearly every day I was in my office...

After Danny's death earlier this semester -- our beloved chair and a dear, dear friend -- this comes as another blow to the department. Death has come to often and too close in recent months.