Navigating Pet Grief
As I write this, my 16-year-old cat Lily is sitting on the cushion beside me purring – but two weeks ago she nearly died. Let me explain. Lily went under anesthesia for a routine diagnostic procedure, and coming out of [...]
How to Grieve Your Fallen Heroes
When I was 15 years old, a friend and I bought tickets to the movie Mission to Mars and didn’t see it. Instead, not yet old enough to buy tickets to an R-rated movie, we snuck into American Beauty. And [...]
There’s no place like home.
I lived in a house in California until I was 5. Then I lived in another until I was 18. Then I spent the summer with my long-distance boyfriend in Georgia before starting my freshman year of college in Ohio. [...]