In this personal essay, at 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
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A Wealth of Perspective for a Free Ride, Now and Again
“Over the months, spending time with these more seasoned humans offers a perspective that is grounding, calming.”
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Why Murder-Suicide is on the Rise Among the Elderly
“He thought he could live with the punishment of grief—he had done what his wife had asked—but the punishment of the law would be another matter.” Ann Neumann investigates why mercy killings and murder-suicides are on the rise.
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A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl
Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
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A Portrait of the Mother as a Young Girl
Marlene Adelstein finds herself transported back in time and consciousness via an inherited painting.
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‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’
“You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”
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Talking to Big Baby
A child’s doll exerts a gravitational pull on every member of her family.
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Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die
At 47, Tom Scocca realizes most of us are living under the illusion that we have unlimited time, and are free plot out the different phases of our lives to our liking. He crunches some numbers and comes to the conclusion that sooner or later — and who knows which it will be — every […]
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Age Appropriate
Jen Doll comes to terms with her inner teenager … or whatever.