Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

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• Ann Hood:

  I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The n

• Ann Hood:

  Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd

• Ann Hood:

  If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child t

• Ann Hood:

  Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

• Ann Hood:

  I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the

• Ann Hood:

  My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K.

• Ann Hood:

  When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one

• Ann Hood:

  As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind

• Ann Hood:

  My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of str

• Ann Hood:

  God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.