Love, Loss & Family

Stories from a marriage, a childhood, and the family in between — love and grief as they actually happen, not as they're supposed to.

Love, Loss & Family March 2026

The Geometry of We

Standing in a crowd with no one in particular, I started noticing the invisible lines we draw to stay connected.

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Love, Loss & Family November 2025

The Second Toast

At my son's wedding, one old nickname was enough to unravel decades of my own marriage in my head.

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Love, Loss & Family November 2025

The Girl at Arc Coffee

I wasn't looking for anything that gray morning, which might be exactly why I found it.

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Love, Loss & Family January 2025

The Joy of Single hood

I married someone I didn't choose, and it took me years to understand what came after that.

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Love, Loss & Family November 2024

Shiny Floors, Same Ghosts

The stains in our old carpet turned out to be the only honest record of our family's history.

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Love, Loss & Family February 2023

Time's Cruel Joke: A Journey of Love, Loss, and Reflection

Something about this new relationship felt oddly familiar, and I still can't decide if that's comforting or a warning.

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Love, Loss & Family January 2023

Obsessing over Time

I ran into someone from my past in a hardware store parking lot, and it undid me more than I expected.

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Love, Loss & Family August 2022

Mom

I watched the flames take my mother, and somehow, in that moment, I finally felt at peace.

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Love, Loss & Family September 2021

Appa, The Voice That Echoes Through Time

My son calling out "Appa" stopped me cold and pulled my own father right back into the room.

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Love, Loss & Family September 2020

The Relationship Tango

I married in the '90s and had to learn, fast, what trust actually means.

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Love, Loss & Family August 2020

Corona Virus

My own family reacted so differently to the same lockdown that I started to see each of them clearly for the first time.

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Love, Loss & Family August 2019

Pillars of My Life

My mother and my aunt taught me what strength actually looks like, and I'm still leaning on what they built in me.

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Love, Loss & Family January 1997

Pooja

I wasn't expecting fireworks when I met her, and that might be exactly why

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