(Written July 3, 2008 – one month after the death of my daughter Ava) I just finished a book about a couple who lost their only child, “First You Die.” Like nearly everything else I have read, it indicates that this pain doesn’t “get better.” For the author and her husband, the loss has become …
Tag Archive: death of child
Apr 13
Grief Journal No. 4: Grief, growth, and pursuit of happiness
I’d had a particularly bad morning; left work early; cried until I was dry. Then, as so often these days, I felt Ava’s soft-yet-strong arms go around my shoulders, her head press against my cheek, and she rocked me. We rocked as we so often did through the years when providing comfort to one another. …
Apr 12
A promise of happiness
My cherished daughter died in May of 2008. She had just finished her sophomore year in college. Late that summer, I traveled to her college to gather her belongings and to hold an informal memorial for her friends and professors. It was a very difficult trip to make. I was only in Portland, Oregon, for …
Jan 19
Carl Zimmer, science, philosophy, a tattoo, and love
A design as unique as my daughter. She designed the tattoo I didn’t want her to get. It now adorns both my back and the headstone at her grave. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/01/18/requiem-revisited/
