My daughter has asked me to write about my mother, and I hesitate. I immediately seek out other themes, such as current events, current associations, or the spring light that hits the Iranian carpet in my living room. With its strong summer rays, it will fade the color of pomegranate in the evening light…
When my friend Dana and I get to spend time together, there’s one topic in particular that comes up again and again : How do we organize our time? Do we have enough personal space? Sometimes it feels like everything we try to squeeze into our tight schedule of chores and accommodating has to be…
As a woman and an actor, how do you feel about aging,getting older? I am terrified of aging. I have aging strategies. I’m always picking someone, Connie Britton, Kathryn Keener, Julianne Moore..and saying ok, she looks normal and beautiful, great hair, no face surgery that’s my forty-seven strategy, or that’s my fifty-three strategy. I guess though,…
Kristin and I sit under the apple tree in her garden. We share a carton Chablis and each have our pack of Marlboro. The children play hide and seek inside the house. We are waiting for our permanent seats, she left and I to the right, so it has always been. Yes, since we met…
The world is so big, so complicated so replete with marvels and surprises that it takes years for most people to notice, that it is, also irretrievably broken. There follows a program of renewed inquiry, often involuntary, into the nature and effects of mortality, entropy, heartbreak, violence, failure, cowardice, duplicity, cruelty, and grief. The researcher…