Elderhood and the Pulitzer Prizes
On the afternoon of Monday, May 4 2020, I was in clinic – well, pandemic clinic. I was sitting at my home desk talking to a patient via Zoom on my...
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NPR’s Marketplace Age Fail
One summer’s evening in 2017, Kai Ryssdal’s familiar, sonorous voice filled my car. It’s a great voice, deep yet warm, amused and insightful. That voice...
Amour the movie, Teju Cole, and me
In his essay “Age, Actually,” Teju Cole writes about Michael Haneke’s movie Amour. The couple at the film’s core are fine at the film’s beginning – old...
The meaning of home
On September 14 2017, the day after a Florida nursing home lost air conditioning when a tree fell on their transformer in the wake of Hurricane Irma...