“Even though my brain is confused and I’m struggling, always struggling, to see if my writing is good, I still want to write. And the writing that matters the most to me isn’t about Alzheimer’s. It’s about a cat.”
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Blood-Blue Sky
“How horseshoe crabs and ecological grief connect with the wonders of the human heart.”
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Death, Divorce, and the Magic of Kitchen Objects: How to Find Hope in Loss
“As they pass through different hands, cooking utensils can magically connect us to loved ones who are no longer with us.”
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Losing My Dad in Installments
“Back then, it felt easier to say goodbye to each part of him as they left.”
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Telling the Bees
“Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival.”
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The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
“The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.”
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Life, Death, and Sourdough
“A bubbling starter brought back Joe, in more ways than one.”
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Solastalgia
“Pleasant memories of places past: that’s nostalgia. But what do you call the grief that comes when the modern world leaves nary a trace of the place that raised you?”
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David Lynch Was Here
A dispatch from the real Twin Peaks, where fans of the director flocked after his death.
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If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t the Rest of Us?
“Perhaps part of Orli’s legacy is insisting on this conversation.”