Like many of you, I have been sheltering in place at home since mid-March when I shut down my Boston office. Though I did spend late-May to late-June in Chicago when my Dad was dying, upon my return to Maine after my Dad’s death, I hunkered back down in my house. To date, I have …
My mother and I can fight. Like, we can yell and scream at the top of our lungs sometimes. Last summer my daughters had friends over and my mother and I got in a fight about…I don’t even remember…but we were screaming at each other so loud my daughters (they tell me now) took their …
Each time I’m given the opportunity to share thoughts and information in this space, I’m struck by how wrong it feels to be putting myself (what I’ve learned from others) in the spotlight. I’m a white woman who grew up among professional middle- and owning-class people and my extended family falls somewhere on this area …