Tag: loss

Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.

“There was no chance I was going to ask him to make another winter, but as long as he was hobbling to his golf course and chortling to me each morning, it seemed too early to end his life.”

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.

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

Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.

“But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “

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

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

A trip to Key West becomes an unexpected journey involving a sacred bird, a beloved dog, and the challenge of coming to terms with the nature of fate.

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.

Grieving after giving up on academic life.

Seth Davis Branitz had an awful suspicion he’d feel relieved when, some day, his very troubled brother would pass. He had no idea about the other ends it would rapidly bring with it.

We have a tendency to lose items on a daily basis, and spend half a year over the course of our lifetimes searching for them.

What they don’t tell you about death—or what you don’t really understand until it happens close to you—is how permanent it is. In the months afterward I kept thinking to myself, all right, I get it. This is too painful. Let’s just take a little break from the loss. Let’s have a weekend off. A […]

Nancy Westaway explores the nuances of grief in our digital society — how our tweets and emails can comfort our loved ones after we’re gone.

A powerful personal story.

GROSS: What are some of the most painful things that have happened to you that you’ve ended up making jokes about on stage? Ms. RIVERS: Oh, where do you start? My husband’s suicide. GROSS: Right. Ms. RIVERS: Some man, 60 years old, that couldn’t take the business and went and killed himself. How do you […]

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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Tom Molanphy | Loud Memories of a Quiet Life (OutPost 19) | May 2012 | 18 minutes (4,652 words) Tom Molanphy earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. He freelances for 10Best/Travel Media Group at USA Today and teaches creative writing, composition and journalism at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. This […]