I love a crossword puzzle. I love the blank slate of it and the way you can slowly start to fill in the grids with all the random pieces of knowledge you've accumulated over the years. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote Cats, which was based on poems by TS Eliot, who was...
My father, a professor and a poet, has dementia. Over the years he must have written dozens of articles and poems. Occasionally for money. Yesterday, he received a royalty check for .78. He obviously has no memory of what the check is for. My mother also has no idea....
When my daughter is home from college she likes to go to the grocery store with me. It's something we used to do together when she still lived at home. Before Covid, I bribed her with a latte. I wanted the time to talk to her alone, away from her homework and her...