When my grandmother was in a nursing home, she really struggled to enjoy her time there. She resented being taken away from her home, where she’d lived for most of her life. My grandmother was a very creative and highly intelligent woman who wanted to live out the rest of her days on her own […]
Continue ReadingIn Golden Gate Park that day a man and his wife were coming along thru the enormous meadow which was the meadow of the world
Continue ReadingA common literary trope says that we all become the masks we wear. Choices can mold our personality, as much as personality shapes our choices. If, for instance, someone starting at a new cutthroat office thinks, “I’m not a backstabber, but I just have to act like one for a little bit,” then inevitably, that […]
Continue ReadingVideo games are growing in popularity with the older generation—in one study, older adults were asked to rank how often they used video games, and almost a third reported playing at least once a week, and over 17% reported playing every day. Although we sometimes think of video games as a “guilty pleasure”—a way to […]
Continue ReadingLucy would call her mom at least once a week, and usually more. Lucy had moved away from Daly City a few years ago, taking a job just outside Seattle. She liked it there, but the 12-hour drive meant she couldn’t get back to see her mom as often as she would like. Her parents […]
Continue ReadingRay and Bob were born less than six months apart, at the same hospital on the southside of Chicago in 1936. Their families lived across the courtyard from one another, and they were friends before either of them even knew what that meant. They played games together as children, and grew up together, separating only […]
Continue ReadingA solo voice cuts through the darkened theater, a powerful soprano that is soon joined by two more in perfect harmony. At the end of a line, their voices are picked up by others, at different registers, and then more: like a burst dam the voices come rushing forth, intermingling, a sea of individuals working […]
Continue ReadingWhen I was in high school, there was a sign at the end of the locker room, which we’d see as we were running out of the building toward the football field: “Pain Is Temporary. Pride Is Forever.” It’s one of those dumb and inspiring things you believe at 15, and it seemed true. Even […]
Continue ReadingI was very young when my grandfather began to reach the end of his life, but I could see how those really close to him began to take out and pore over old things he had: honors he had received in the war, a touching letter written by his colleagues about his work as a […]
Continue ReadingWhat do you want? What do you need? These are the questions at the heart of any human relationship, from parents struggling to interpret the strange cries and pleadings of their newborn to a couple on a first date wondering what alchemy of words and deeds and gestures will unlock the other’s affections to an […]
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