I started writing this piece a couple of years ago and then stopped. At the time, I was not sure how to say what I was feeling without sounding angry, and I did not want anger to be the loudest…
I remember, back around the turn of the century, hearing Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann. At the time, it felt clever. Insightful, even. I was probably too young to fully understand what it meant, though I had a vague sense…
My mortality is something I have always struggled with, but I did not fully understand it until my mother’s father passed away four years ago, just before the birth of my daughter. His death hit me profoundly. He was the…
