In an unexpected collision of various interests of mine, a political celebrity came across and shared the music video of a family friend. Northwest New Jersey school teacher and mother of two Lee-Ellen Pisauro has spent a few years now sharing her experiences and emotions — particularly related to her youngest son, who has Down’s [...]

My mother died yesterday. I’m proud of the obituary I was able to write for her in our hometown newspaper. It’s also available on the funeral parlor Web site, or you can read it below. She was a good woman. It’s a shitty thing but everyone has shitty things happen to them. NEWTON — Carol [...]

It’s all about alternative revenue. Newspapers, large and small, have served for generations as a gateway for providing information about the deaths of loved ones. Without any real numbers to back this up, it sure seems that unlike things like job listings and other classifieds, obit profits haven’t been eaten away nearly as much. When [...]

My grandmother died on the Monday before Thanksgiving, November 2006, two months beyond my father’s parents celebrated 54 years marriage. The thought of the weight of loneliness, left after a half century of practiced, dependent love, made me shiver one night, then a continent away, studying in Tokyo. I made an effort to call my [...]

By Christopher Wink | Mar 18, 2008 My grandmother died on the Monday before Thanksgiving, November 2006, two months beyond my father’s parents celebrated 54 years marriage.The thought of the weight of loneliness, left after a half century of practiced, dependent love, made me shiver one night, then a continent away, studying in Tokyo. I [...]

By Christopher Wink | June 15, 2007 She was named after the fourth month. Not for when she was born, but of a time of warmth and beginnings for her parents who thought both had now since died. Interestingly, it was her name’s temporal successor – a month that, among other things, signaled the annual [...]

By Christopher Wink | Jul 12, 2005 | First email from Ghana Date: Tue 12 Jul 12:27:32 EDT 2005 From: Christopher Wink | Add To Address Book | This is Spam Subject: Greetings from Abroad To: Family All: Sound the trumpeters for I have come to announce my arrival. I am here at the University of Ghana [...]

By Christopher Wink | May 20, 2007 | NPR submission It is too rare what I have, two spectacularly loving parents who coincidentally love each other as well. Still, understanding that I also someday want to be a competent father with strong arms and too much advice, I particularly idolize my own father in a [...]