grief

Nightmare is too gentle a word for what it feels like to live without my mother. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to do it for the rest of my l...

"If a friend of yours loses someone, write them a letter full of love. You need them, these letters, to help get you through the days and th...

A year ago today, my mother died. I couldn't imagine living one day without her. Now, I've lived 365 days without her. Every day, for the re...

A year ago, this was my mother's last full day of life. Looking back, I now know this was the eve of her death. I started reading a biograph...

Recently, on the 20th anniversary of my father's death, I reflected on a scene from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway . Today, when I sought ou...

In the past week, the grief has been physically affecting me. I expected as much in the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of my mother's d...

One of the most beautiful memories of my life is watching the DVD of Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park with my father when ...