bereavement
Rain is beating down again; it feels like a deluge every third day now. Six weeks of temporary ups and steep downturns, exacerbated in so many ways. Where are you in this storm? How are you navigating the isolation—unable to be with loved ones, or face to face with people you care about? You may…
Read MoreGrowing up, I was an avid breakfast reader of the Globe’s sports section, fond of the “Thoughts While Shaving” column. In his regular piece, sportswriter Ernie Roberts offered tidbits of critiques and impressions regarding players on the doomed Red Sox and Pats, or the vaunted Celtics and Bruins. My post today adopts some of that…
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Finding a new purpose after unspeakable loss In the predawn hours of November 15, 2002, every parent’s worst nightmare strikes journalist and aspiring teacher Ken Brack, who along with his wife learns that his son has died in a car crash. Trying to make sense of the unspeakable, he sets out to find how people…
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