Breaking Up with Breaking Bad
“It’s over, bitch.” That’s how she put it in no uncertain terms as the credits rolled at the end of the series finale. It was the voice of Jesse Pinkman that she chose, the show’s outlaw Robin to...
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Last week, I left the job where I have worked for the past seven-and-three-quarter years. There’s not much to say about the job itself—that’s the other life I don’t write about in this forum, the one...
View ArticlePrecious Things Come from Staying
Joan Didion’s family, she says, are a tribe of leavers. In her 2004 book Where I Was From, she begins with her great-great-great-great-grandmother and traces a family history lined with people who, she...
View ArticleThe Sweetness These Days
On the phone, he says, Your mother throws me over her shoulder and carries me across the parking lot to the club house, the dining room. (She rolls his walker to a corner of the dining room where it...
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