Editor’s Column: Grief serves a purpose

I can’t write a letter to the editor, as folks do, so this is it: the editor’s letter to all of you who have reached out to us this week in our time of loss and sorrow.

My week has been studded with random quotes from “Gone With the Wind.” On Tuesday and Wednesday, as we pushed through the initial shock of our son’s death to get the paper out, it was “I can’t think…