Hello again, everyone, William here. I try to make my contributions to the web worth the one-half of an English degree I’ve managed to get, but I am not by nature a particularly polite or restrained guy. I’m impulsive, prone to speaking my mind, and it’s really sabotaged a lot of potential friendships I might […]
Why is it that my grief seems to give people permission to invade my personal space? A total stranger and I are talking about our work, the way strangers do. We are on the patio at a club, and we’ve both had a few drinks, so the conversation is a little less coherent and a little more […]
Sarah Parmenter’s blog entry, “The Things Nobody Tells You About Grief,” is so damn full of good advice. If you have recently experienced a loss and are at the beginning of your “grief journey,” this essay is for you. There is so much that those of us who have lived through the first few years of […]
