So, the part I don’t understand: Why does it take a celebrity to draw attention to this most basic of human conditions? The rancor over Patton Oswalt’s engagement 15 months after his wife’s death drives home the point that only the grieving can decide how to grieve, or conversely, when to be done mourning. In the case of […]
In my life, where I don’t always know whether my fingers will graze sky or ground when I reach out, sometimes our fingers interlaced is all that I need: I don’t need to know how it’s all going to unfold. On the eve of the second anniversary of my husband’s death, a Monday, I drove […]
We all just do the best we can. I am still just doing the best I can. Hundreds of times over the last six years, I have been told of my strength. I have been told of my persistence, my courage, my unfailing optimism. I have been told how much I must hurt, and yet […]
