Blog
On Massachusetts General Hospital Reaching Out to Schedule Your COVID-19 Vaccine
| October 30, 2023 Even nearly a decade on, they couldn't have known that your cognitive decline and general dislike of communications necessitated all emails come to me.
Jumping in Leaves
| October 23, 2023 Somewhere after the turn of the millennium I slid from leaf jumper to leaf raker, and so on this smoky November afternoon I hold down my job for the boy in front of me during what will be his only non-digital hour of the day.
Ceremony
| October 16, 2023 Spring struggles through enough days to offer tulips. They've popped up in every garden lining the street, and a few reach from the corner where Indie, my twelve-year-old daughter, and I turn toward home.
The Connective Tissue of Empathy
| October 11, 2023 Alyssa Graybeal begins her memoir with a list of acronyms for a host of medical conditions, the central one of which is Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
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The Beckoning Rose
| October 9, 2023 Several years ago, my wife and I drove from Charlotte to Pinewood, South Carolina, hopeful we might find the gravesite of my Johnson ancestors. This was the town where my ancestors were slaves on plantations owned by the Richardson and Manning families, who produced five governors of South Carolina.
Skywriting
| October 2, 2023 One evening, when my kids were little and demanding, and my sense of self felt like a slow leak, replaced with the repetition and duty of young motherhood, I took refuge in my backyard. I was alone, feeling a thousand miles away from the desert and mountains of my childhood.
