Tag: grieving

Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?

The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.

Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.

When her grandfather died, Abigail Rasminsky learned about a part of his life she’d known nothing about.

Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.

Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.

Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.

Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.

Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.

A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.

Notes from an awful winter.

After his death, Emily Urquhart ‘sees’ her brother with regularity. Nearly 20 years later, stories and science help to explain why.

Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

Ken Otterbourg contemplates love and loss and what we remember when we try to forget.

Sometimes death takes a torturously slow, scenic route.

Jacqueline Dooley recalls her difficult transition from being a mother with earthly duties, to becoming one with more spiritual concerns for a teenage daughter with terminal cancer.

After a series of losses, Lillian Slugocki tries to make sense of death — and life in the wake of others’ passing.

How a family of five learned how to be a family of four.

Anna Armstrong recalls a road trip to escape her grief-stricken home — dragging her 13-year-old brother to see R.E.M.

Karen Brown recalls conspiring with her father in his final weeks to find some humor in the pain.

A decade after her mother’s death, Ashley Abramson reflects on being raised by a parent addicted to opioids.

Kate Axelrod reflects on the last days of her grandmother’s life, and witnessing as her grandfather’s own decline helped him to survive losing his wife of 66 years.

Isaac Blum writes in the Iowa Review about his young sister’s death, the shadow Heinz ketchup casts over his family, and the different ways people mourn.

A powerful personal story.

The fact that everyone else here has VIP status grimly similar to mine is the lone saving grace; the prospect of experiencing this stroll down waking nightmare lane with tuned-out schoolkids or spectacle-seekers would be too much. There are FDNY T-shirts and search-and-rescue sweatshirts and no one quite makes eye contact with anyone else, and […]

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