The Crack Between the Worlds: A Dancer’s Memoir of Loss and Faith by Maggie Kast My rating: 3 of 5 stars Intrigued by the title, I came to this book through the combination of my own bereaved parenthood, spiritual engagement,
Eva’s Twentieth Yartzeit
Tonight begins the twentieth yartzeit for Eva, marking twenty one years since her death transformed our lives. Yartzeit marks the Hebrew date of her death, the 2nd of Av. Yartzeit is Judaism’s way of remembering the dead, but it is
New Publication: Grief’s Cradle
My essay “Grief’s Cradle,” first published in the Adelaide Literary Journal, has been republished in Grief Digest. “Grief’s Cradle” is my ‘theory of grief,” if you will, with thoughts from Joan Didion, Elisabeth Kubler Ross and CS Lewis interspersed with