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Ubi Sunt
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? Where are those who came before us? The Old English poems ask—over and over again, in different words, different…
Jun 26, 2023
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The Wildest of All the Wild Animals
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and…
Jun 19, 2023
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When Do You Say, “No More”?
There’s a trick many of us, maybe all of us, do when we examine difficult information about the future, a kind of sleight-of-mind. Climatologists, when…
Jun 12, 2023
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Tsundoku
A Pile of Unread Books
Jun 5, 2023
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May 2023
Behind the Fog
When my father wonders aloud what his dog is thinking, the question makes him laugh in merriment. Maybe because it’s unanswerable, or perhaps from the…
May 29, 2023
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Surveillance
In the nineteenth century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham created a design he believed would allow a single guard to oversee an entire prison. He…
May 22, 2023
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Maggie’s Story
The moment Maggie begins a haunting series of high-pitched whines and barks—that’s when we know Dad has returned home from a morning swim. “How does she…
May 15, 2023
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Wild Week
My father’s brain turned inward after he fell. It was out to lunch, out for the season, out for the rest of his life—we couldn’t know. And while his…
May 8, 2023
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The Fall
It was almost exactly six months ago, early in the morning, when I heard a thunk from my father’s bedroom and went to investigate. His bed was empty…
May 1, 2023
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April 2023
You Must Remember This
Humphrey Bogart is sitting next to a half-empty whiskey bottle, sunk in despair in the after-hours dark of Rick’s Café, when he says it: “Of all the gin…
Apr 24, 2023
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The Meaning of Life in Old Age
My father doesn’t call me very often now, and I miss that. I miss his enthusiastic stories about the weather or his dog, or about searching for his…
Apr 17, 2023
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Imagine Living There
Ruta Kadonoff sometimes asks nursing home administrators: “Would you want to live here?” “If they’re honest and they look you in the eyes,” she told me…
Apr 10, 2023
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