When I think of my cousin Jamie, I always see her the same way, the way she walked up to me when she was living: her chin is slightly down, her eyes shine, and she’s smiling already, pre-emptively delighted at whatever cousin nonsense we’re about to get up to. I’m sure we must have approached… Continue reading Eulogy in a Minor Key
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Grief in a Year
It's January 13th. Friday the 13th, in fact. That means it's been just about a year - time is fuzzy so I don't remember the exact date - since I found out that my cousin Jamie was very ill. Seriously ill. Terminally ill, as it turns out. I know it's been almost a year because… Continue reading Grief in a Year
Grief in the Time of Covid
I wrote this piece over seven months ago. At the time, the death toll in the United States from Covid-19 was around 170,000, and (most) of the country was still reeling from the fact that we had passed 150,000. The virtual Democratic National Convention was just beginning, and Joe Biden had just announced Kamala Harris… Continue reading Grief in the Time of Covid
Nothing Down the Drain 