You fell in love with a dying star

Noah Gundersen's new song and our perpetual mourning

Readers, every so often I come to you in such a way that This Is The Way is like a confessional booth, where I offer up my failures as a parent, spouse, and friend in hopes that someone out there finds it relatable.

A few days ago, I was in the car with my daughter. The details of the story aren’t super important, but what I’ll say is that she was being…