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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I Didn't Want to Write This Book
I never intended to write a book about my mother’s slow unmaking by Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer’s grief is a strangely extended and unwanted sojourn from the known to the unknown, something private and hard to talk about. Not only that, but as...
Some News About My Book-in-Progress
Nearly four years ago, I gave a eulogy for my mother. Three weeks ago, I signed a contract for the book that it’s becoming.
The Unmaking of My Mother: Alzheimer’s and the Mysticism of Forgetting will be published by North Point Press / Far...
A catastrophe we call home
Over the recent Memorial weekend, I visited my dad in Traverse City, Michigan, my hometown. To say, out loud (or digitally), “I visited my dad,” is an unhappy reminder that my mother is no longer there to visit. But I love my dad, who still...
I Walked Out on Sufjan Stevens
Enormous, cottony snowflakes showered down on us as we ran together through town. It was too early for anyone else to be out, so we ran in the middle of the streets, which, even for twenty-year-old college kids, felt a little naughty.
It w...
Love With No Place to Go, At the Salt Shed (April 25, 2026)
Bounding onto the stage with his battle-scarred guitar slung over his shoulder, scanning the room corner to corner, jogging from one side to the other, he sized us up with a stone-faced glare. From the second row, I could see the boxer he u...
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Author and dad with bad taste in shoes. (So I’ve been told, by my daughters and wife.) I write about grief as a way of knowing and how to live spiritually and democratically in a world saturated with loss.
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