Robin Moore

Robin Moore has been writing for clients for 20 years. Her specialties include plain language materials about difficult, technical topics in health and medical research, and fundraising for non-profit organizations. She is currently consulting with a number of clients on using social media for outreach and advocacy and developing a product that will improve the lives of grieving people. She also writes a popular blog and moderates a thriving online community. Moore holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Articles:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Image for My Life after Loss

When my husband died, I had no idea how I’d recover. After two years of nursing his terminal illness, our household was drained and I was just plain exhausted. As the breadwinner, I had worked full time through his illness; as the mother of a small child, I was desperately needed at home. Perhaps it looked to the world like I could make it. Kevin had told me, over and over, “you’re stronger than you think.” Grief was overwhelming, but I knew that would run its course in time. My therapist assured me I had all the right tools in […]

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The Importance of Dying at Home

When Elizabeth Edwards died last month, she was at home. When I heard that, I felt pins of jealousy pricking into me. My husband died of cancer after two years of fight: you might expect I’d hear echoes of the last days and of the loss. But no. The hurts were petty, many, and sharp. Because Gavin couldn’t die at home, the way he would have wanted. And it was because of me. Those nurses in the ICU, loving and kind to me and my little girl, who wasn’t supposed to be allowed in, but they saw how his numbers […]

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Despite Flaws, John Edwards Deserves the Title of ‘Widower’

One of the most destructive grief myths is “the deeper the love, the greater the grief.” John and Elizabeth Edwards had, no doubt, a complicated relationship. He’d had an affair, another child, and the couple were separated, but stories tell us he moved back home to be with Elizabeth and their three children recently, as her condition worsened. So I anticipate that despite this late, public transformation to devoted family leader, there will be lots of talk about John Edwards’ transition to widower and likely, lots of judgment of how he grieves based on how he “should” feel. Some widowed […]

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‘It’s Not Going to be OK,’ She Said

Looking back on it now, the bright curve of my life turned gently downward after my daughter was born, fell sharply as my husband was diagnosed with a stage IV cancer, and waggled as we fought his illness for a year.  After the second surgery, through the fourth and fifth chemo regimens, my line flattened into a basin. After he died, our hearts grieved the loss, and we struggled to adjust to everyday life. Caregiving and anticipating loss were, in a way, worse than the pit of grief. Adjusting and struggling for air in the year after his death were […]

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