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Untrue crime
Cleaning out my mother’s house after she died revealed the usual postmortem waste. Old checkbooks and old budget books, framed and unframed college and…
Feb 14
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Eva Talmadge
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Unread mail
Yesterday I opened up some of my mother’s mail and found a bill for $45,903. It’s from a hospital (where else), and isn’t itemized—there’s just a…
Dec 22, 2023
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Eva Talmadge
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A covenant
After January’s crisis my mother’s health got better for a few days, maybe a week or two, before returning to its slow decline. She did not feel well…
Jul 7, 2023
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Waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in
I never planned to write a newsletter about elder care or spend so much time writing chronicles of how things are going with my mom. But this is what it…
Feb 1, 2023
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Eva Talmadge
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The hospital
My mother’s health took a turn for the worse back in April. I keep meaning to write about it, but it’s not easy to tell the truth about what happened…
Sep 16, 2022
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This is what I do on Friday nights
The thing I like most about Philadelphia is the way people greet each other on the street. There’s never any question—you make eye contact and say hi…
Jan 29, 2022
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Eva Talmadge
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Starting again
Last year I wrote about the challenges of writing when you’ve experienced a dislocation—of needing to have a sense of who you are and where you’re…
Jan 7, 2022
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I promise I'm not ghosting you
It’s just that I moved! To Philadelphia! And it’s been amazing! Also I’ve been buried in a heap of unpacked boxes, shelves not yet anchored to the…
Oct 22, 2021
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