Ale’s Walls
Ale Vazquez sent me this text and photo: Mev in my room–I just put them up yesterday! And now when I look at them I think of you and Mev and Angelica and México and…
Category: Mev Puleo
A Reminiscence from Kevin Schneider, SJ about the Days in Cambridge, 1989-1991:
I remember so many conversations with Mev and Mark about passion and desire through photographs and other artists. I always felt so important when we were together. Mev had a way of making me feel…
How To Have Fun
Mev taught me something very important: She taught me that when you go to Ted Drewes you could mix all different kinds of frozen custard flavors together. I would never have dreamed of some of…
Remembering Mev in San Antonio
Hi, Mark! Hope that this new year is one full of blessings for you. You’ve probably already received lots of copies of the article on Mev but decided to send it just in case. This…
Raw, Humbling, Challenging by Meg Buckley
I am drawn to the Mev Puleo scholarship because it has been something that has weighed on my heart ever since hearing of its existence. I stumbled across The Book of Mev this past summer,…
A Bubbly Beautiful Great Soul
From series, “Visions of Mev.” A scant 4 weeks after her debulking surgery for a glioblastoma (“grade 4”) brain tumor. Mid-May 1994. Mev is sitting enblanketed on couch in our Oakland apartment at…
It’s a Book about Living and Loving and Losing and Being Human through All of It by Cami Kasmerchak
Dear Dr. C, This is a long time coming, but I’ve put off writing this because I want to say it right. Then again, if I’ve learned anything from you and Natalie Goldberg, it’s that…
No Comfort (excerpt from The Book of Mev)
There was the wailing wall in my study: How many minutes did I mediate on those photographs of Mev, how many tears fell, how many screams of mine ascended to Cathy Nolan’s ears upstairs, how…
Gratitudes/937
It came to my attention Just in the last week or so That Tony Albrecht saw The Book of Mev on the Arandas’ bookshelves, borrowed it, and started reading it Abbie Amico is going over Faces of Poverty…