in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding ….

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans….

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feeling….