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“Over many decades, my grandmother gave responses to thousands of questions, wrote tens of thousands of words, and spoke for hours and hours while tapes rolled. She would be, in other words, the perfect candidate for AI reanimation.” In my household, the transition from summer to fall has been tough. Lately, to help my daughter […]
“While extremely harmful professionally and personally, the hearings were not Oppenheimer’s greatest tragedy.”
“How they saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.”
“I savored the slow struggle of orientation…until the day I’d wake up and realize I no longer felt lost.”
It’s complicated: A tribute to real love stories, in all their weird and chaotic glory.
Six stories about making a life of one’s own.
“Hadi’s lawyer, who encouraged the family to take whatever deal was offered, brought a proposal for 19 months in jail.”
“Maybe it’s only when you don’t know what you are listening for that you find what you were waiting all along to discover.”
“I peeled the list off the windshield and held it like an artifact: evidence of a life I didn’t know but suddenly cared about. It read like a poem. A confession. What was the story behind this list, I wondered—and what would come for this stranger after the checkout aisle?” I love making lists. They […]
“Much of the time, I feel like a girl. A curious girl of 48 who, today, is walking the neighborhood streets with a girl of 13, and listening to what this girl has to say. She happens to be my kid, this person I made, a living being that gave my life a whole new […]
