'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

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

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

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.