The five stages of grief can’t begin to explain it: grief affects the body, brain and sense of self, and patience is the key April Reese is an independent science and environment journalist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Outside, bioGraphic and The Guardian, among many other outlets. Edited by Pam Weintraub When the hospice nurse called on the morning of 2 April to tell me that my father had died at 7:38am, just two days after he was released from the hospital and seven hours after I arrived in town to see him, the world suddenly felt … Continue reading The fog of grief