Modern Loss

Deep Night Season 15: Stone Serpents

Dale revisits a quiet place of his childhood, which turns out to be rife with unsettling secrets and discoveries. While he was running with his arms outstretched through the winter coat display at Hovey’s Department Store, strange things were turning in the grass, slithering among the damp stones. Spurred to reflect on that time by…

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Deep Night Season 15: Glitter and Graves

Dale continues his pursuit of an authentic self, pondering whether anyone can ever really arrive at a place where they know who they are and what they’re doing. He welcomes some old wisdom on grief and gravesites from Washington Irving, who also engaged in a bit of slipping between other selves when it came to…

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Deep Night Season 14: Rebecca Soffer

Dale senses he should be happy now that it’s sunny and springtime out, but he can’t quite shake the creeping sadness that comes with grief. Good thing he’s sitting down this week with someone who knows all about dark days and the difficulty of losing one’s parents. Rebecca Soffer, writer, speaker, and co-founder of the…

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