Thursday, October 14, 2021

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AGE QUOD AGIS: REMEMBERING SEAN SHESGREEN, 1939-2021 Can you grieve for someone you haven’t seen in twenty years, haven’t communicated with,...
Monday, March 23, 2020

The Blue Hours of Coronavirus

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Everything is the virus.  I have become the virus, beginning my day with my phone, checking the latest quarantines, the latest emergencies....
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Friday, September 27, 2019

Blue Healer: The Suicide of Dr. Judith Eve Sandick

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“There are no words.” Of all the comments on Facebook which appeared in the days after Dr. Judith Eve Sandick—doctor, wife, mother of fou...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Everything Will be All Right (Published in The Amherst Bulletin, June 15, 2017)

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I didn’t cry at my only child’s graduation from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana recently. The older I have gotten, the less sentimenta...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Magic of Pussy Hats

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On inauguration day—rainy and dank and “full of mourning,” as one friend wrote on a Facebook post—we gathered in my friend Christine’s kitc...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Garlic and Sapphires in the Mud: Remembering Paul Priest, 1931-2015

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He was my first cousin once-removed, which didn’t really count as family, something I was acutely aware of when the young doctor at W...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Rebecca Rice: Juror No. 3 Reflects on the Case Against Leo E. Fugler, III: Published in "The Hampshire Gazette" June 13, 2015

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The excused were giddy as schoolchildren on a snow day as they hurried out of the Hampshire County Superior Court, released from jury ...