Missing Persons
October 5, 2021
“A Missing Person is not the same as a death. It cannot be grieved over and dealt with in the same way. Instead it becomes something lived with day by day.” (Ann Mulrooney, sculptor of the ‘Monument to Missing Persons’) A pair of familiar ladies on horseback greeted me as I struggled to find a suitable jogging pace on the […]
January 10, 2021
A Gentle Soul My mother was a gentle soul. The only daughter in an Irish-American family, she was coddled by her parents who taught her to be polite, demure and avoid Norwegian-American boys in their Brooklyn neighborhood at all costs. This was indeed amusing because whenever I asked why, she would say these boys were ‘given to drink.’ “But Mom, […]