Ultimately, the petition requesting the town acquire a 35-acre tract failed to accumulate the required two-thirds vote, with a final tally of 135–65 against the petition.
“Grief is a topic that makes most people want to run for the hills, but we’re not doing ourselves any favors by responding in that way.”
-- Rebecca Soffer
One of my regrets is that I did not just bypass the infertility treatments and go straight for adoption, because I can’t imagine that I could feel any closer to a birth child than I feel to my daughter.
The co-founders of Modern Loss have taken the plunge and transitioned from an online community to a printed book, one that is wise and funny and seeks to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief.