We went to visit Xander on New Year’s Day. Nothing will ever prepare you for losing a child. Nothing. It is the most excruciating pain you could ever imagine…times a zillion, and that’s not even close. Words truly cannot describe it. In the Spring of 2004 I interviewed Rachel Scott’s dad for our university newspaper. I took the interview because no one else on staff would. No one wanted to interview “the Columbine girl’s dad.” He was coming to our university to give a talk about Rachel and how s

Extended interview: Rachel Goldberg-Polin on grief after the death of her son, Hersh