Pain and Loss Archives - Eileen O'Grady

The enormity of this global moment hits when we learn that in Jerusalem, the church of the Holy Sepulchre (above) had to close its doors...

I have to let winter be winter. I recently learned that my cousin ended his own life. This brought on a wide range of difficult...

Our habits of mind can play incredible tricks on us. One of the first things I learned to do as a nurse was to accurately...

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference. ...

Vulnerability (latin wounding first known use 1605) No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis When we are going...