Jimmy Buffett died over Labor Day weekend. There’s been an outpouring for grief as America mourns our Poet of Paradise. Yet it’s perplexing that we grieve so hard for people we’ve never met. Who don’t even know we exist. Grief experts call it parasocial grief and say it’s real. Once you understand how we form attachments to other people, our grief for our favorite stars makes complete sense.
imagine the people in your life who will likely outlive you. When they tell stories about you, what do you hope they’ll write. Bingo! You just identified your legacy.
My favorite John Travolta movie is Michael. (Who doesn’t have a favorite John Travolta movie?) The film is about the Archangel Michael, who shows up in Iowa with a mission of igniting a romance between a tabloid reporter and an “angel expert.” When they show up at the Iowa hotel where he’s staying, he makes a
Early in her career, my mother faced a frightening setback.She and my father were a few years out of college and living in Ohio. Dad quit his job to attend graduate school. Mom landed a teaching position in a town that was an easy commute to main campus.Her sorority sister, who worked in the district,