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I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that... →
A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved... →
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the... →
A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like... →
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite... →
All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly... →
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the... →
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone... →
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a... →
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
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