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Rethinking Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die
The full version of this post is available on the Jewish parenting website, kveller.com. Click through to read the whole thing. In 2006, my 35-year-old stepbrother was diagnosed with advanced...
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Deviance and Righteousness
This guest post comes from a friend who lost her mother to ovarian cancer. Jennifer Harbel, a family friend, was full of empathy for what my children might be experiencing as I went through treatment....
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Nearing the End, Part 2
This is the second of three posts I will share from the time when my stepbrother’s life was coming to a close. (The first is here.) I wrote them for concerned friends via an email list. As I process my...
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Mortality Acting Out
What do Walter White and General Patraeus have in common? Aside from being white American men of a certain age, maybe not much. But they do both have a cancer diagnosis. Does this explain the General’s...
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Five years ago
Five years ago today, my stepbrother died. I can’t believe so much time has gone by already. I am experiencing that strange tangled sense of time, where his death feels like a lifetime ago and just...
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