Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

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• Meghan O'Rourke:

  And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn'

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, s

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wa

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, wi

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an alter

• Meghan O'Rourke:

  I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.