The Crown
The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit, and other historical dramas Like many of us, COVID has left me starved for social stimulation. And to ameliorate that urge, I turn to nightly television storytelling in search of (temporary) kinship. Once in the embrace of TV’s blue light, I scan my new friends’…
A Novel About Attachment
In my dream, my old mother is crying. And her crying makes me cry. We are both crying. When my mother died in the last weeks of 2014 she had been erased by dementia and had suffered a thousand small deaths before her material form succumbed. My dream is of…