My Eight Year Old Son Was Teased for His Duct Taped Sneakers Then the Principal Called Me One Morning

would continue to pass through, because that is what grief is, a country you carry with you rather than one you leave.

But you can carry it differently, depending on what else you are carrying alongside it.

We were going to be okay. I had known it earlier in the afternoon and I knew it again now, and it felt more solid the second time, the way things continue reading …