One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

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

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.