Her Finale: Rewriting a Eulogy at 30,000 Feet

  This week’s episode is not an interview. There’s no guest, no red carpet stories, no chaos, no laughs over cocktails. This one is personal. A few weeks ago, I lost my grandmother — my Grandmère. And somehow, in the middle of grief, airports, airplane wine, bad sandwiches, and the finale of Downton Abbey, something extraordinary happened. I felt her. What started as a carefully written eulogy suddenly became something completely different. Raw. Honest. Real. It felt as though she was sitting beside me on that flight home, guiding every word as my fingers flew across the keyboard. No overthinking. No editing. Just love, memory, grief… and her. When I landed, I learned I wouldn’t be allowed to read the eulogy at her funeral mass. I was angry. Heartbroken. Because how do you say goodbye to someone so magical without telling the world who they truly were? So instead, I’m sharing her story here. This episode is seven minutes of love, loss, memories, family, and the strange beauty of feeling someone’s presence even after they’re gone. It’s about grandmothers who stitched comfort into quilts, who held families together quietly, and who somehow still find ways to speak to us after they leave this earth. If you’ve ever lost someone… If you miss somebody today… If you’ve ever felt grief hit you in the most unexpected place… Or if you simply need a reminder to call the people you love… I hope you listen. And maybe, just maybe, while you do… you’ll feel her gentle little spirit twirling around your heart too.