LettersHer daughters worked out a holiday rotation without asking her. She got the Sunday after Thanksgiving and Christmas every other year. She has a draft email in her outbox she suspects she shouldn't send.
LettersShe gets no bereavement leave, no casseroles. Six months out from losing her best friend of thirty-five years, and the world expects her to be over it.
LettersThirty-two years of showing up. What do you do when the call only goes one way?
lettersShe moved four states to be near her son's family. She is still waiting to belong to it.
LettersNobody prepares you for the Tuesday when you reach for the phone and then don't.
LettersShe's still there. You're still losing her. Both things are true.
LettersHe had a plan. The plan didn't account for grief.
LettersA woman in her sixties asks whether it's okay to stop expecting her brother to be someone he has never been.
LettersA retired teacher moves across the country and realizes she doesn't know how to start over.
LettersA reader describes a twenty-three-year friendship that leaves her feeling invisible every time. Lorraine names what that costs and what to do about it.
LettersA reader knows she needs to talk to her aging father about the car. She also knows that once she does, something changes that doesn't change back.