Cooking with love

It was my father's birthday recently and, for whatever reason, it hit me harder than usual this year.

- MAGGIE WHITE

As you may know from previous columns, my father died more than 25 years ago. And still the grief process continues. I can't clearly identify why some birthdays, holidays, anniversaries or whatnot pass with no emotional fallout, while on others I feel the loss as acutely as if it happened just days, and not decades, earlier.

Maybe that resonates with you--the wily nature of that beast we call grief.