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Articles by Sheldon Rogers
Grief Looks a Lot Like 'Crazy'
In the hit Netflix series, “Dead to Me,” the real estate is luxe and there is way too much time to sit by the pool with a wine glass in hand, and most of us can’t pull off looking as good in a pencil skirt as its star, Christina Applegate. But there is still so much that rings true about the show’s onscreen portrayal of sudden loss and young widowhood. The show centers on Jen, a widowed mother of two, and Judy, the quirky friend she meets in her bereavement group.
The Journey Cake
Actor Vincent Schiavelli and Tembi’s husband, Saro Gullo, in L.A. with the journey cake, 1997 I am a southern black American woman who married an Italian chef. The kind of Italian, husband and chef who, on a whim, once offered to carry a cake across three continents because a baker in a remote village in Sicily we had just met asked him to. I am the kind of American, wife and woman who snickered at the absurdity. But he was dead serious. The cake came with us.
My Ectopic Pregnancy Nearly Killed Me
A bomb exploded inside my body. It was an ectopic pregnancy rupture. So rare that in 25 years of practice, my OB/GYN has seen only a handful of them. Internal bleeding. Emergency surgery. In a morphine haze, I blurrily signed a hysterectomy consent form, having to immediately choose between my own life and the potential of being able to create one. I’m in my late twenties. My mother passed away when I was 12, and I wrote an investigative memoir about her life.
How Can You Be Happy at a Time Like This?
I talk to my therapist a lot about Donald Trump. And it’s not just because of the normal stuff, like how we are being led by a man who formed when a patch of sunlight hit a dumpster filled with self-tanner, although that’s part of it. It’s mostly because, three days after Trump was elected, my mother unexpectedly died. I know. But I have to say, while I don’t recommend losing a person who connects you to this world the week that world gets upended, I admit there were some advantages.
As a Gay Southern Christian, Rachel Held Evans Was My Lifeline
Rachel Held Evans (YouTube) In the four years since my mom died, any time I’m confronted with death my first reaction is to pull away. Every instance hurts too much because it reminds me of what I lost when I lost her. Lately, I’ve realized this extends even to people I’ve never met. The fear of reliving losing my mom death causes me to remain silent when people die in senseless and tragic ways. Every so often a news story grabs my attention while passing through my feed and makes me think, “Wow.
Gold Star Widow
Artis Henderson, right, and the cover of her memoir. There are more than a thousand widows of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but during my first time at the National Military Survivor Seminar held each year over Memorial Day weekend by an organization called Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, or TAPS, I worried that none of them would be like me.
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