The Grief Manual: Fear

Being an adult, feeling helpless

Destabilizing death can make the world seem intrinsically random and stuffed with the boogeymen of bad chance. My sister, Hannah, died, and as I continue the story of my life wrest from what I thought it would be, her loss is both about heartbreak and fear. Fear grabs us from behind and forces us to dance rapidly but delicately on the knife blade. Fear is that line of fire marching from…