There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.