Music Monday: A Time to Feel
A Music Monday post about a few songs that help me *feel* my way through life.
An eloquent, gut-wrenching, beautiful exposition of grief
Find a handkerchief and, for the love of all that matters, please read this. Sheryl Sandberg is the COO of Facebook. A month ago, her husband David, CEO of SurveyMonkey, died in an abrupt accident. Here she unpacks the past 30 days of mourning and teaches all of us how to […]
In Memoriam
Today, my friend Jesse lost his father. I have walked this road, though not exactly in this form, and I grieve with Jesse tonight at the loss of his dad, and for all the people who knew Frank. Frank was retired from the Navy and his passionate hobby was studying […]
Uh, so I’m pretty much bawling over here.
To Feel Like a Kid Again. ^ That. That post. Nails it. Jack has been a dear friend of ours for quite a while now. I think his post about the death of his father manages to capture the empty feeling that lingers on through your life once a parent […]
“Death, thou shalt die.”
When I teach John Donne to my Brit Lit students each year, I take time to show the class the film W;t, written by Margaret Edson and starring Emma Thompson. The tale of a Donne scholar facing terminal ovarian cancer, the movie helps students grasp the depth of Donne’s themes without […]
