Tomorrow I'll be at Gigi's Cafe (Minneapolis), in conversation with Jon J.D. Lurie, author of Canoeing with Jose. I've been preparing all week, staging on the dining room table. Books, check. Signing pen, check. Bookmarks, check. Mic and speaker, check. Fresh haircut, check. Nerves in check, check.

Jon and I met last week to prep, so I c…

I love this picture, the perms, the heart in lights, the connection that is palpable between these sisters.

On the anniversary of my dad’s death, I’m sharing an essay that was published in Passengers Journal, about what it’s like to have a father with dementia, to lose your connection to him over time and grasp for it when it appears occasionally. It’s about my dad, who he was, and what taking care of him required. But it’s really about time a…