You may choose your song, but know this: Tiny. Cooper. Hates. Over. The. Rainbow.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

The consequences of being un-cool feel so big that a lot of times you end of not finding ways to have open and honest conversations.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.