Surviving grief, looking for a path back home The stillness of my apartment is deafening. I wake to the sun beating through my blinds and the drone of the air...
Death and dying
It can take a lifetime to step past a history of hurt, but 12 steps is a good way to start. When my young son asks me what God looks like, I want to tell him...
One day a friend of mine called a classmate from college with whom she had not talked in years, only to learn that the woman’s 7-month-old baby had...
Every time Mary Borner goes to church at St. Thecla Parish in Chicago she pictures her husband's casket going down the aisle. She and Jack had been married...
This article is adapted from Thomas Lynch’s essay collections, The Undertaking (W.W. Norton and Co., 1997) and Bodies in Motion and at Rest (W.W. Norton...
Jack Miller, author of Healing Our Losses: A Journal for Working Through Your Grief (1993), doesn't tell peple how to grieve-only that they must grieve...
What Mary Hansen rmembers about her father's sudden death 22 years ago was praying the rosary at St. Anthony's Church in Tigard, Oregon. She and...
In 1975 the unthinkable happened: Paula D'Arcy lost her husband, Roy, and 21-month-old daughter, Sarah, after a drunk driver hit their car. Pregnant at the...
In these latter years of the 20th century, matters related to “letting go” or not letting go have attained great prominence. The slogans can be as...
Someone to watch over me Marie Allen, of Charleston, South Carolina lost her husband when he died unexpectedly of a heart attack only a few months after their...
