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Six Ways to Give Your Loved One the Best Death Possible
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature, is a paradise to what we fear of death.” — Claudio in Shakespeare’s […]
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Life and Death in the Shadow of Vesuvius
The city buried in ash, now in Times Square…From March 4th through September 5th 2011, the doors to the past will be flung open as visitors to New York’s Discovery Times Square Museum find themselves transported 2,000 years […]
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Empty Branch in the Orchard
by Mary OliverTo have loved is everything, I loved, once, a hummingbird who came every afternoon– the freedom-loving male– who flew by himself to sample the sweets of the garden, to sit […]
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Widows Who Love
When I think of modern day widows, I think of the three women who were touched by death, and consequently touched my heart in recent months. Beth, who is middle […]
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The Modern Mourner
Cherish those you Love; Remember those you’ve Lost.The Modern Mourner was begun by a crafty lady in the Bay Area when she lost her mother and knit an urn cozy to capture her warmth. Now her project […]
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“Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter”
by Antonia FraserFrom a distance, the marriage of Antonia Fraser, a notable British biographer and author, and the late Harold Pinter, the 2005 Nobel Laureate of Literature, would seem an unlikely […]
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Sex and Death
I spent a night with Harold Pinter with Off Broadway West Theatre Company’s production of his two short plays, The Dumb Waiter and The Lover. I saw sex, death, and a whole […]
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An Unexpected Death Brings Our Family Together
One winter night in 2005, I received a phone call – one of those dreaded calls we all know could happen at any moment, try as we might to forget […]
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