I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that...

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

At least it’s working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don’t expect is what happens.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

Pattie saw grief. Her eyes focused on a version of her own young self, and so many other children in Vietnam who grew up without parents, some abandoned because of their ethnicity, others because of...

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I’m actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.