Tag: The Long Goodbye

• Beyond any notion of a beginning

  When we talk about love, we go back to the start, to pinpoint the moment of free fall. But this story is the story of an ending, of death, and it has no beginning. A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That’s what makes her a mother: you cannot start the story. But,…

  mariegauthier

  March 11, 2011

  Aidan, books, death, family, friends, sickness, Time, Vincent

  cancer, death, family, Meghan O’Rourke, memoirs, mothers, stories, The Long Goodbye