Now it is our turn. A shooter came to our town. He killed 10 people in a grocery store we have all been to. The first I heard about it was just that there was an active shooter in Boulder, and my heart dropped because my daughter was out in an exposed public place at […]
There’s a song by LCD Soundsystem called “Someone Great,” about the feelings that come when someone important to you dies. In the last half of the song, he sings “When someone great is gone,” over and over, enough times that it feels like a chant. This part of the song has been repeating in my […]
Today seems like a good day to write about grief, since a good portion of our country is feeling profound grief due to the election outcome. Most people do not deal with grief very well, whether it is their own grief or the grief of another. It is not something many of us have been […]
When I was in my twenties and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, I spent some time volunteering with and shadowing people who were doing what I thought I might want to do. One person in particular made a huge impact on me with one very short part of […]