An obsession with an orphaned sea otter helps Marlene Adelstein process her grief over her Alzheimers-afflicted mom.
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Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes, Sports
There’s No Overtime In This Game
Georgia Cloepfil is only in her mid-twenties, but she already contemplating the end of her soccer career.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Nonfiction
Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind
Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.
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Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind
Kevin Sampsell bears witness to the ways in which Alzheimer’s has been pulling his mother back in time, and taking over her life.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Forever Yesterday: Peering Inside My Mom’s Fading Mind
A personal essay in which writer Kevin Sampsell struggles to understand and accept the ravages of Alzheimer’s on his elderly mother’s memory — and quality of life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Food, Quotes
Sometimes a Bowl of Soup is Just a Bowl of Soup
And sometimes it’s the embodiment of the cages of wealth and privilege we build around ourselves.
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Let’s Go to Jerusalem for Soup Again
Taffy Brodesser-Akner travels to Israel to reexamine the soup of her youth and the gap between memory, desire, and (ugh) reality.
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The $5,000 Decision to Get Rid of My Past
After a series of painful losses, Ben Kuchera learns that when your games become your ghosts, it’s time to clean house.
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A Pet Tortoise Who Will Outlive Us All
“It’s humbling to care for an animal that reminds you, each day, of your own imminent death.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
François Truffaut on an Aging Joan Crawford
As she neared fifty, determined to keep going, she became almost grotesque, answering her own needs and the wiles of directors eager to exploit her. In Nicholas Ray’s odd, beautiful, impassioned Western “Johnny Guitar” (1954), she’s Vienna, a tough businesswoman who runs a saloon and constantly faces down groups of armed men. Vienna is both an […]