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The Great Forgetting

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 1, 2023January 1, 2023

“Earth is losing its memory.”

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The Fight of My Life

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2022December 13, 2022

“When my wife and daughter were killed in Iran’s downing of Flight PS752, my life was thrown into total darkness.”

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Technology That Lets Us “Speak” to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 26, 2022December 14, 2022

“Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.”

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The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 7, 2022November 11, 2022

“Try as I might, there is no material stronger than kinship.”

Collage of black and white portraits of people made with ashes
Posted inCulture

The Death Artist

by Maggie Donahue October 25, 2022November 18, 2022

Her medium: the cremains of departed loved ones. Her mission: to change your perspective on the end of life.

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The Loneliness of the Junior College Esports Coach

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 28, 2022October 19, 2022

After a year of loss and grief, Madison Marquer signed up to lead a team of gamers at a community college in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Brendan I. Koerner chronicles the journey. By early 2021, Walsh had gathered ample evidence to prove that esports could bring in as many as 20 ­student-athletes per year and boost the […]

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‘My Sincere Condolences’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 28, 2021October 19, 2022

Inside the struggles and heartaches of FEMA’s massive COVID funeral assistance program.

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52 Years in 11 Days: A Son, Facing Death, Finds His Father

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 11, 2021October 19, 2022

“After struggling with cancer for years, Sam Anthony was running out of time. Before he died, he found the courage to mail a letter that he had long been afraid to send.”

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The Ambiguous Loss of (Probably) Not Selling My Novel

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 13, 2021October 19, 2022

In a period of trying to sell her novel, Danielle Lazarin reflects on art, waiting, and the space between grief and hope.

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Grace: An Unfinished Draft, A Fire

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 3, 2021October 19, 2022

“In Texas—Georgia—in Alabama—all over this vast canvas of fear that we call America, women will die. They won’t have time to run away. They will be great-Aunts only in name, and in death. And their deaths will disappear into a language made and remade by men to cover their shitty sins.”

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