We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion that we can control our bodies and….

I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the ….

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. T….

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to r….