Local psychologist and executive coach Mac McShane and his wife Cynthia Calvin live in the home they built in the Roaring Fork Valley looking out over Mount Sopris. In January of 2019, they lost their only son, Benjamin Hirsch-McShane, who at the age of 35 was killed in an avalanche while skiing on a backcountry hut trip in Montana.
McShane says he began to write as a way to survive, and later to search for a path forward. He just published his first book of poems and prose about the loss of his son, called, “Me in Relationship to You: Reflections on Love Loss, and a Life Well-Lived.”
Morning Edition host Eleanor Bennett recently spoke with Mac McShane about what he uncovered in the process of writing his poetry and sharing it with others.
