The School of Grief: Notes from the Unmaking
Michael.S.HogueAuthor • Academic • Dad • Writing about grief as a way of seeing. Essays on loss, spirituality, ecology, and democracy.
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Author, academic, and dad. Writing grief as a mode of attention. My current book project is a memoir about Alzheimer’s as an illness of forgetting that reminds us how to be more fully human.
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