“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinctions between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said God himself inhabits.” -Frederick Buechner I’ve shared this quote before, and as it happens to be written […]
July is birthday month at our house. Annie and Pearl, even as infants, always seemed to have not one but three or four birthday parties, and this year has been no exception. Yesterday was the big party here — Bruce and I cooked (hamburgers made with organic farm beef), and generally stayed in the background. I went […]
Nineteen years ago — at this very time, by the way — my daughters Annie and Pearl were born. Annie was born first, at 6:40, if I remember right. Then Pearl, at 7:06. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. […]
Author Magazine Interview with Meghan O’Rourke
“It is so painful and so terrible to go through a loss, but ideally it deepens us and connects us to others.” -Meghan O’Rourke, poet and author of The Long Goodbye.