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'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
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