36 Things To Do For Those In Grief

I made a list when it happened to me…

Mourning in the Wake of an Avalanche

What We Did After Our 17-yr old Skiing-loving Son Died

How To Get a Lego X-Wing

For a child growing up in the late 90s, the Lego X-Wing was an opportunity to own a part of the Star Wars Universe…

The Demonizing of Drug Users Has to Stop

Philip Seymour Hoffman Death Shines Light on Darkness of…

You. Will. Die.

How to keep first things first and not sweat the small stuff

Letters To Ghosts

Heartbreak, humor, and all the in-between of coping with a brother’s suicide.

Death and the Suburbs

When visiting home becomes a meditation on mortality

My mother’s friend died last night. Mrs. C. had a brain tumor, and her descent was brutally rapid. She got her diagnosis in the spring, right around the same time my parents’…

The time bomb in my head

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The policy of aging and death

In discussions of scientific research, the topics of science policy and advocacy—the means of funding…