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.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.