I don’t know if they are becoming more obvious because of my own experience of sudden, unexpected loss, or perhaps it’s just a normal progression of growing older and others around who are growing even older, or maybe it’s something else. … What was even more disheartening were the insensitive people who interpreted the situation they way they wanted and said things, especially criticisms, that they wouldn’t have said if the same thing had happened to their own child, relative, or friend.

A few friends and I decided to have dinner at The Cheesecake Factory atop Macy’s Union Square in San Francisco this weekend. Since we had 35-45 minutes to kill before our seating was available, we decided to go shopping for a little bit. We found ourselves in the women’s shoes section (my girl [...]