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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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December 2023
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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July 2023
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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February 2023
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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September 2022
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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January 2022
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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Eva Talmadge
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October 2021
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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September 2021
Keeping in touch
I feel like I should say more about the thirty-year-old boyfriend. He had a lot more going for him than a roach-free apartment. He’d just wrecked his…
Sep 12, 2021
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August 2021
To Philadelphia
The week I graduated high school I moved into the apartment of my thirty-year-old boyfriend in Broward County and pretty much never went back home. I’ve…
Aug 27, 2021
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Masks are back :(
I wrote a thing about how it felt like the virus was over, how we all got to spend a minute feeling like this whole sad era of isolation and death was…
Aug 15, 2021
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Masks are back :(
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July 2021
Bad habits
When I started this newsletter I did not expect to write about my mom at all. She’s been doing the same thing for so many years that it felt like she’d…
Jul 29, 2021
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