Keeping my dead wife’s books safe for our son helped me let go of guilt / Ben O'Mara

Reading with him, I am reminded of the world of words his mother and I shared. I no longer feel so overwhelmed As I removed my dead wife’s favourite novels from the bookshelf, a photo of her fell to the ground and a wave of guilt swamped me. The photo was of my wife with her sister in the 1980s. (…)