Anticipatory Grief

Van Gogh's Chair (1888) shown three times side by side — an empty wooden chair with a pipe on its seat.

My Daughter, Justice, Died Nine Years Ago. My Anticipatory Grief Didn’t.

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Prom dresses. Basketball games. The unlived losses keep building.

What Anticipatory Grief Really Feels Like When a Parent Is Dying

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How caregiving, role reversal, and messy emotions reshape relationships long before a parent’s death.

5 Truths No One Tells You About Disability and Loss

5 Truths No One Tells You About Disability and Loss

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The narratives are more expansive and nuanced than we let on.

A Sacred, Unlikely Friendship, Maintained Through Terrifying Times

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At 87, my friend Ned narrowly escaped Covid-19's invasion of his nursing home. Here's what it made me realize.

Ned and I

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I'm 36. One of my best friends is 84. I try to live in the moment, knowing our relationship might be a fleeting one.

My 6 Years of Anticipatory Grief

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My daughter died after an unsuccessful heart transplant. But I've lived very real stages of loss since even before she entered the world.

‘I Don’t Wait’

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It's hard being patient when you're living with a fatal illness. Emily Kramer-Golinkoff is channeling her impatience into changing how Cystic Fibrosis research is done.

A Video Network All Their Own

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A veteran producer's new website uses television-quality video to reach parents of terminally ill children.