Last month we aired a story about Thomas and Giancarlo Roma, the father-son team who did a book together based on the loss of Giancarlo’s baby sister Mary. I had mentioned that I originally interviewed the Romas 12 years ago for a Studio 360 story. This week Studio 360 is airing my follow-up. You can […]
Joseph Primo of Good Grief, Inc. answers my questions on how to talk to young children about death, whether or not they’ve actually encountered loss. Plus, his personal list of preferable vs unpreferable ways to die.
Our morning routine: my daughter eats breakfast, gets dressed, brushes her teeth, gets in the car to go to daycare. And asks about death.
When Giancarlo Roma was four years old, his sister Mary died the day she was born—an experience that he says trained him to write a book from the perspective of an elderly woman.
Poet Arielle Greenberg’s son Day dies 31 weeks into her pregnancy. At which point, she makes a whole bunch of choices that not many women would make, so she can emerge from stillbirth not completely broken. And . . . it works. Part 3 of a three-part series on natural birth.
She finally asks me the question I have been dreading most.
An unexpected tragedy turns a mean mommy into a laid back one.