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By: rebeccakuder

I am so grateful to have read this. I am so grateful, Emily, that you have opened your home. All I can say is thank you, and I will do what I can to hold you three, especially.

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By: Patty

Very true, all of it. Emily. I wish I had some words of comfort. I have none. We think of you and little Ronan every day. Please give him a kiss for us.

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By: Eloise Klein Healy

I am in your field of gravity, little family. You are all often in my thoughts. The beautiful and the inscrutable balancing within you.

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By: Jennifer from Oregon

I am stunned each time I read this blog by the eloquent writing, the depth of feeling, the searing and heartbreaking honesty. I come back again and again, read and reread. I don’t know you or your...

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By: tara

i can only echo was jennifer above wrote. i keep coming here again and again. i don’t know you, but i think about you, your husband and your beautiful, sweet ronan every day. i think of his beautiful...

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By: Bernadette

Absolutely gorgeous. I am reminded of the times I’ve spent with Emily, Rick and Ronan and so grateful to have had those times. So grateful for the times I’ve gotten to hold Ronan’s full self, to touch...

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By: Anne

This is so beautiful. And true. I am crying. Thank you.

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By: Teri Speece

This essay, much like Emily’s writings, is such a comfort and a shock to me, all at once–that someone understandfs these feelings so completely. To be the mother of a terminally ill child is to endure...

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By: Betty Shusterman

Dear Emily, Our beautiful daughter Jodi Allison died from Tay-Sacks in June,1987 at the age of 5. There isn’t a day that goes by that we dont think of her. They say that Tay-Sacks children are the most...

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