“Grief”, as Her Majesty the Queen said only a few years ago, “is the price we pay for love.”

They weren’t her own words – they come from a book by a British psychologist, Dr. Colin Murray Parks – but she made them famous, and I’m grateful, because it’s a powerful phrase. There are dozens of metaphors for grief and hundreds of similes. Grief is the flip side of the coin, the onion that […]