Be Extra Kind to Your Mom, Because You Only Get One, Warts and All
I’m not sure but I think I was sitting at the kitchen table with my 12-year-old daughter, who was getting ready for her 7th grade play, when the call came. Urgent. Hospital. Brain actively bleeding....
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I can’t stop thinking about the photo in the New York Times of a beautiful Norwegian woman, with red hair, crying out in agony because one of her loved ones was killed in the deadly attack on...
View ArticleWhat If it Wasn’t My Mother’s Time to Die?
A few weeks after my mom died I went to a grief group at our local hospital. My limbs were so heavy, my heart hurt so much, and I was so stricken by my mom’s sudden collapse. Every morning that week I...
View ArticleMy Mom Died Almost a Year and a Half Ago and I’m Still Sad: The Death of a...
Yesterday Athena came tentatively into my office, sat down on the couch where I was working, and sighed. “What’s the matter?” I asked. “Nothing,” Athena humphed. But tears trickled out of the corner of...
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