If today is a day of underscored grief, if you’re having a difficult time dealing with someone’s death, or if you’re in need of a general positivity grenade – this is for you. Today is my first Father’s Day without a living father. When he died in March, I received an outpouring of comments and emails and calls and offers of support, a flood of positive words and energy. These things, coupled with my memorial trip to Denver turned the …
I came back from Denver on Tuesday evening, but it’s taken this long to begin my return to life as I know it. Actually, there is no coming back completely. Two-pages of obituaries for my dad in Vestnik Herald newspaper It’s not about high drama or some pseudo-elevation-via-tragedy, however, facts are facts: I’m different. Though I have no intention of sharing overgenerous amounts of personal details or ineffable epiphanies, I do think that saying something about my father’s death is …