Caroll Sun Yang’s UNPLANNED GUAVA CEREMONY
October 20th, 2016 | by Caroll Sun Yang
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. —Joan Didion We sit cross-legged on the
Browsing the "Grief" Tag
Radical Empathy: DEATH IS STUPID, an Interview with Anastasia Higginbotham
July 25th, 2016 | by Katherine Thome
Grieving children and children of divorce learn way too early that adults are emotional children. Children of tragedy experience a
GRIEF STRUCK: An Interview with TOM HART on ROSALIE LIGHTNING
May 19th, 2016 | by Meg Lemke
Tom Hart and Leela Corman’s daughter Rosalie Lightning died, suddenly and unexpectedly, before her second birthday. Their tragedy shocked the indie
ROSALIE LIGHTNING: An Excerpt from TOM HART’s Graphic Memoir About His Daughter
May 19th, 2016 | by Tom Hart
Tom Hart’s daughter Rosalie died, before she turned two years old. He drew a book about her, about grief, and about
Jacqui Morton on WHAT GROWS FROM GRIEF
May 6th, 2016 | by Jacqui Morton
I see her rarely in a dream, though her face eludes me even there. I see her in the kitchen.
BABY REMEMBER HIS NAME: Katherine Thome on Birth and Grief
April 13th, 2016 | by Katherine Thome
“And you shall call his name John.” Luke 1:13 “Well, should we call him John? Jack for short? Or
QUIET PLEASE: A (Still) Birth Story by Nina Capelli Oppenheim
February 18th, 2016 | by Nina Capelli Oppenheim
Later I thought of it as the walk of shame. A nurse led Tommy and me from a hospital observation
WHO WILL THIS BE TO ME by Betsy Graziana Fasbinder—from BLENDED: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience
October 28th, 2015 | by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
“There is no guarantee of happily ever after,” writes editor Samantha Waltz in the introduction to Blended, a collection from feminist publisher
INSIDE OUT: Carla Grossini-Concha on Loving Her Daughter While Mourning Her Son
July 16th, 2015 | by Carla Grossini-Concha
Today is my daughter’s 9-month birthday. It’s her “inside-out” birthday: the same approximate amount of time she’s been out of
The UnCommon Core by KATHERINE THOME
June 2nd, 2015 | by Katherine Thome
“Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/”less of” the attribute,