"Are you looking forward to the holidays?"

Don't ever ask one who has lost a child that question.

No, I'm not looking forward to Rosh haShana, with it's greetings of "May you be written and sealed in the Book of Life," or to Sukkot, for which we are commanded, "And you shall be joyous."

I don't think that I'll be able to stand hearing, "May you be written and sealed for a good year." The first Jewish year without Avi cannot be a good year.