What, Why, How: Lisa Romeo

What:

In the early days of May, I’m celebrating 30 years of marriage (to my high school crush!), National Moscato Wine Day, and the publication of my first full-length book, Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss.

Mostly, it’s a posthumous love letter to my father, a complicated guy I didn’t understand, thought I was so different from, and never felt close to in life. Then I made some startling discoveries as I “got to know him” after he died—truths that showed me how a...