05/14/2026
LISTENER ALERT: Caroline will interview author Danielle Crittenden on her latest book, Dispatches from Grief, on the Local Morning Edition, Friday, May 15, 2026.
On Friday, May 15, between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m., Caroline will interview published author Danielle Crittenden about her latest book, Dispatches from Grief. Please send questions you may have to [email protected]/. As Danielle states, “Hard questions are welcome.”
An excerpt from Danielle’s article on Reddit follows.
“I'm Danielle Crittenden. Two years ago, my daughter Miranda died suddenly in her Brooklyn apartment. She was 32.
She'd survived brain surgery almost five years earlier. The tumor was benign, but it had ruined her pituitary gland, which meant she lived on a daily cocktail of medications that needed adjusting whenever she got sick.
In January 2024, she came down with what looked like a bad cold. None of us, Miranda included, understood what was actually happening. She died in the middle of the night.
I'm a journalist and the author of several books, and I've spent thirty years writing about women, family, and modern life. None of it prepared me for this, and for many months after Miranda died, I couldn't write anything at all. The book that eventually came out of that silence is called Dispatches from Grief.
I write about the "muggings" that level you without warning in a grocery store or a basement storage room. Marriage inside grief. Surviving children watching their mother come apart. Faith. The people who say the wrong thing, and the rare ones who say the right thing. What it means to keep living when a piece of you doesn't.
One of the strangest discoveries of the last two years has been how crowded the world of grief actually is. People I'd known for decades turned out to be fellow citizens, their passports hidden until I showed mine. In the book I call this place the Alternative Universe. It's a country you don't know exists until you arrive in it, and the people already living there are the ones who could speak to me when no one else could…
Please join WOJB to hear what promises to be a deeply profound interview. Again, feel free to send your questions to Caroline aat [email protected]/.
