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This article explores the (continuing) experience of loss, asking how we come to know loss as the losing event itself becomes more distant and the lost begins to fade in the memory. Following an earlier article about the death of his father 3 years ago, the author tells further stories about his father and draws from encounters in his counseling practice. He works with the Deleuzian concept of stammering, as he attempts to find words that take lines of flight and that do justice to the aporetic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to tell a different, perhaps a ‘truer,’ story about coaches and coaching through presenting an autoethnography of the author as a dysfluent coach. The author's tale, which depicts a typical pregame scenario, explores issues associated with maintaining ‘face’ and others' respect in a context characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and power. In addition, within the endnotes, the applicability of the storied genre to coaching research is discussed, with Goffman's works on stigma, interaction, and impression management offered as theoretical signposts to help readers better interpret the author's account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]