Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

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

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

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

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