When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them. Meghan O'Rourke findjournalmother Change image and share on social
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. Meghan O'Rourke badbringchange share on social
Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller. Meghan O'Rourke goodmotherspeller Change image and share on social
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. Meghan O'Rourke beginmakemother Change image and share on social
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit. Meghan O'Rourke blithebrotherfall Change image and share on social
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. Meghan O'Rourke describedescriptiondramatize Change image and share on social
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. Meghan O'Rourke catholicchildindoctrinate Change image and share on social
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. Meghan O'Rourke disruptionexperiencefully Change image and share on social
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. Meghan O'Rourke conditionexquisitelygrief Change image and share on social
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. Meghan O'Rourke makeprimarysense Change image and share on social
