‘We can do this can’t we, Jackson?’ ‘Yes, Daddy. We can do this together.’ I asked my son this fairly rhetorical question when he was two and half years old and I was totally lost, […]
Tag: GRIEF
I QUIT MY JOB TO SPEND THE SUMMER WITH MY SON
A shorter version of this piece about was first published in The Times in July 2018, before the trip detailed below. One of the hardest things about being a sole parent, I keep telling anyone who will […]
DIFFERENT THAN BEFORE: RELUCTANT ADVICE FOR THE BEREAVED
I started writing about grief almost as soon as it came into my life six and a half years ago. My 33-year-old wife was struck and killed by a speeding car; our son had just […]
SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT BETTER MENTAL HEALTH
I noticed that it was Mental Health Awareness Week while poking around online the other day. It’s been hard not to notice, in fact. That in itself, I believe, is amazing progress. I remember when […]
LIVING LOSS AND THE IMAGINARY HIERARCHY OF GRIEF
I once wrote that grief is not a competition, and that if it were, there would be no winners anyway. But there is often an imagined hierarchy of grief. For some of us, it’s somewhat […]
