Story's End

From the New Yorker via Arts and Letters Daily, very good essay about the death of a loved one, writing, and remembering.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/weekinreview/27grief.html?_r=1

Writing a mother’s death.
by Meghan O’Rourke March 7, 2011

My mother died on Christmas Day, at home, around three in the afternoon. In the first months afterward, I felt an intense desire to write down the story of her death, to tell it over and over to friends. I jotted down stray thoughts and memories in the middle of the night. Even during her last weeks, I found myself squirrelling away her words, all her distinctive expressions: “I love you to death” and “Is that our wind I hear?”....