Out of the Shadow by Marlene Adler Marks Life is strange.
Death makes better material.
Look at the best-seller list. I know this territory well. Without death, this space might have emptied long ago. When I began this column 12 years ago, my family was young, my daughter was still in preschool, and my husband played tennis. I hesitate to wonder how long I could have kept at it, had we stayed in one piece.