Hazy Shade of Winter: Fire, Destruction, and Survival in Los Angeles
January 24th, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
In bed in my sister’s old bedroom, my son asked, “Will our house burn down?” “No,” I said. In my head I added, knock on wood.
Browsing the "loss" Tag
Appraisal
December 23rd, 2024 | by Jennifer Alessi
That Christmas night, my daughter in my arms, my cat by my feet, my heart glowed like a ruby wedged under rock
Passing Notes: On Grief-Craft with Michelle Suzanne Mirsky
December 10th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
I don't set my clock by the coming sadness
Jazz Solo: Navigating the Muddy Waters of Miscarriage
November 29th, 2024 | by Emily Wittenhagen
On Friday, four days into the awful drawn out saga that is miscarriage, I felt you holding on.
Care and Feeding
November 19th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I dedicated my book to all the mothers
Eulogy for a Life That Wasn’t
November 11th, 2024 | by Johanna Stephenson
I had fallen unexpectedly and overwhelmingly in love with someone who was ten years into a committed partnership that included iron-clad baby-making plans
Tapestry
June 11th, 2024 | by Sydney Kopp-Richardson
It is hard to know how to hold the person you love the most amidst a devastation you can never specifically know.
Losing Grip: Author Roxanna Asgarian on the Child Welfare System
May 6th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"The systems are clearly biased...but we also see in the Hart story just how many individual acts of bias contributed to these kids' deaths."
Walking into Traffic
May 2nd, 2024 | by Eileen Nittler
One day he will be gone for as long as he was alive.