FEBRUARY 9, 2012 10:26AM

Six Things I Learned from Lena

Our East Coast family of three, Tony, Maggie, and I, flew to see our West Coast family this Christmas vacation. We stayed in Piedmont with our cousins, and in Oakland, the part that is adjacent to Berkeley, in Lena’s small house that she shares with four others. She’s dug around in… Read full post »
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MARCH 25, 2011 7:56AM

on keeping ashes

He was young, 20, and it was unfair, as unfair as things in life go, which is to say no parents should ever see the sight of their dead child’s body. And we talked as much as you can talk within a three or four day period after a death about… Read full post »