This past summer we had to say an unexpected goodbye to our beloved family dog, Tuney. There is often a predictable response to the loss of a pet: the feeling that this grief isn’t as important as other, bigger losses in the world…followed by relentless sobbing. After all, family is family. Grief is grief. The… Read More →
I am the kind of person who organizes my life around traditions. There is a joke in our community that once we do something once, we put it on the calendar in perpetuity. These traditions and rituals shift and change over time, but they still function as the glue that holds us together. I gathered… Read More →
“I see that the rates are starting to come down,” a parent recently shared with me. “But I don’t feel the relief I was expecting. It’s just relentless,” she concluded. “Yeah. I don’t think grief works that way,” I said gently. I knew that her father, who had been another primary caretaker for her kids,… Read More →
