Nastashia Minto, an award-winning writer, poet, singer, creative soul, shares their tender and gentle words about their many layers of grief of having lost several close loved ones in the span of a few years, including their mother. We get the gift of one of her songs, and celebrate their newest publication of writing: A Body Tangled in Time.

Michael talks about the losses of his cat, his mother, his aunt, and two dear friends. His stories describe a wide range of experiences and griefs and lessons, and stemming from all that is a deep sense of gratitude and love.

Here, Andy and I talk through some what-ifs, some ideas and questions about a big loss that hasn't come yet, talk about the griefs associated with nearing end of life and old age, and various fun and curious little meanderings around the wider ideas about grief and loss.

This is another episode in the miniseries "Death in the Everyday" in which, like a little crow bringing little trinkets, I share snippets of ideas and content I find that bring up thoughts and feelings about death and grief to share with you all.

Welcome to season two of Reckoning! This episode, I interview Krislynn, who survived a very near death experience in a car crash in her early twenties. She talks about the recovery process, and how it changed her life, and the ways it influences how she can show up for others going through a similar process.

Hey everyone! Get ready for another season of Reckoning! This is just a little announcement that fresh new episodes are coming out and I am excited to get some conversations rolling again. Reach out if you want to be a part of this new chapter of the project!

This episode, I talk with Mark about losing his wife Christine to a very sudden brain aneurysm. He also shares about how just recently, years after she died, he lost her dog Penny to cancer, bringing up another layer of grief. Our conversation takes us from the unbearable intensive care unit, to a powerful memorial service, through opinions about advanced directives, and the absurd and silly realities of what it means to live through losses.

A new series in the podcast! Death in the Everyday! I'll periodically share a few of my thoughts and details of conversations I have that relate to the topic of death and dying, but that aren't direct conversations with one person about their particular loss. Join me for some cultural critiques, some thought experiments, and some wonderings about death and grief and loss as it shows up in our day to day lives. This episode, I talk about Halloween and related traditions, I share about a recent visit to the art museum, and I discuss my musings on spawning salmon and what we can learn from them.

Celeste shares her story of losing her dad on New Years Day at the tender age of five years old. Adding even more depth and complexity to her story, she learns she has inherited the same rare blood disorder that killed him, and thus faces her own mortality as she navigates life. These two enormous hurdles in life feel daunting to me, but she approaches the conversation with such ease, and calm, and gentleness.

Janette shares her story of taking care of her elderly parents while simultaneously raising two kids. She really dives into the “work” and details of the dying process: sorting through old belongings, advocating for the medical decisions spelled out in a POLST or advanced directive, navigating the financial and legal elements. She shares openly and honestly about the struggles and exhaustion, while also naming some hard-won beautiful insights about how our families can walk through the process together, about learning what it means to give space to someone as they take their last breaths, and about how anyone we bump into in the world can be suffering with grief.