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I made a mistake recently. I didn’t communicate my needs. I didn’t say what I was feeling. And then I felt disappointed and let down when those needs weren’t met. Have you ever done this? Slipped into that quiet place where you hope someone will just know what you need, without you having to say a word? Sometimes it feels impossibly hard to communicate. Naming what we want can make us feel vulnerable, or selfish, or too much. And sometimes, if we’re being honest, we just wan

I used to love the holiday card game. Every year, I would scrutinize our photos with a kind of tender obsessiveness, looking for the one that captured our exact family sensibility in that moment. I wanted just the right mix of love or silliness or quirk. Something that said, this is us right now. I would pick the photo, choose a design that felt fun and personal, and proudly send it off to our closest friends and family. And then William died, and all of that stopped. There w

For most families, October feels magical. The air turns crisp, the leaves blaze gold and red, and weekends fill with apple-picking,...

Grief isn’t something people leave behind at home. When someone in your organization suffers a major loss — a spouse, partner, child,...