What a final thing the funeral is. We can no longer avoid the stark reality of death, the glaring fact that the person who was once our life, our sweetness and our hope, is no longer among us. [...]

Wakes are hard. There is the person you love so much, lying in a coffin, and here is this whole line of people filing by solemnly, tears in their eyes, groping for the right words to say, wishing [...]

My cousin Jay is one of my favorite people, and in spite of our meeting only once in ten years, we have a deep connection. He is a Little Brother of Charles de Foucauld, an order whose members [...]

Visiting Grandma and Grandpa was always one of my favorite things to do when we’d come to the US for summer vacation- we would have “serious” discussions , take a tour of the [...]

Isn’t this beautiful? Mom will be remembered as a gracious, gentle, wise and kind person. She was always concerned about the happiness and well-being of others. When I first met met her, I [...]

I want to share Mom’s obituary with all my friends. Patricia (MacGill) McGowan     McGOWAN, PATRICIA (MacGILL) age 84, of Providence, RI formerly of Somerset passed away Sat. June [...]

Mom died on June 21st at around 10 AM. I heard the news at the airport with Anand and my brother Christopher. We got home soon after and spent the afternoon at her bedside, gazing at her now [...]

Halfway home. Mom is hanging in there. I managed to get on to the direct flight to Boston, so I will be there by 10 on Saturday morning. Such a strange feeling of helplessness! Wanting to rush, [...]

I am returning to America tomorrow, though I have been back here in India less than six weeks. My mother, age 85, is failing rapidly and my sister Lucy, who looks after her, thinks these may be [...]

I love watching children work at the things they set their minds to. This little girl knows the cap has to go back on the pen and she is determined to get it there. She’s got green ink on [...]