How 'Better Not Bitter' Iowa author coped with the death of husband

Author Michelle Cowan with her book, “Better Not Bitter,” a chronicling of tragedy and the rebuilding of a family. (Photo Courtesy of Michelle Cowan.)

I've covered a lot of traffic-crash deaths.

"Walking down the track, picking up body parts gives you an appreciation for the power of a train," an Ames police sergeant told me in the early 1990s in the hour…