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The End of a Circle

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

The Myth of the Hero Mother

But I have decided, or at least I hope, that maybe the Hero Myth can have more than one script. Maybe the mere act of mothering—loving our children, trying to…

Columns, The End of a Circle | June 2019 | By Jennifer Golden


The Talk

It was the beginning of a lifelong conversation about death with my children, one that requires vigilance of thought and word. I am my daughters’ guide through a forest of…

Columns, The End of a Circle | May 2019 | By Jennifer Golden


The Great Escape

But beyond that, Russell, an anthropologist by training, imbued the story with themes that spoke directly to the swirling disquiet in my brain: the trepidation of embarking on an uncharted…

Columns, The End of a Circle | April 2019 | By Jennifer Golden


Vantablack

This was just one of three local chapters, and each likely only represented a fraction of people who had lost a child. The sad tribe of which we were now…

Columns, The End of a Circle | March 2019 | By Jennifer Golden


Happy Birthday

At the end of this month, on February 27, Luke would have turned eight years old. We celebrated just one birthday together. Seven—and counting—without him. When Luke turned one, we…

Columns, The End of a Circle | February 2019 | By Jennifer Golden


Blue Christmas

The clack of my heels striking the sidewalk echoes round and hollow through the frigid night. Whorls of steam curl from my nose, and the cold air leaves an alkaline…

Columns, The End of a Circle | December 2018 | By Jennifer Golden


Random Acts of Gratitude

These passing moments of grace, probably long forgotten by those who offered them, were like lamps illuminating a darkened footpath during my son’s short life.

Columns, The End of a Circle | November 2018 | By Jennifer Golden


Hi Luke

We stop at a red light in Old Town, not two miles from home. Across the intersection, an old cemetery spreads languidly under the oaks, gravestones pushing up through the…

Columns, The End of a Circle | October 2018 | By Jennifer Golden


The End of a Circle

It is almost impossible to hold the two thoughts in my mind simultaneously. A new life is growing inside me even as my young son’s is slipping away.

Columns, The End of a Circle | September 2018 | By Jennifer Golden


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