“Is this place haunted?” my colleague asks. Five of us from the Chemical Heritage Foundation are seated in the surgical amphitheater at the historic Pennsylvania Hospital. The hospital’s archivist is leaning on the non-historic operating table, awash in the sunlight that made nineteenth century surgical operations possible. She pauses, considering my colleague’s question, and cocksContinue reading “Standing in squares of sunshine”
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Done is Better Than Perfect
This is what my younger sister said when I asked her how she makes to-do lists: “I wish I could send you a picture of my to-do lists from college… They were SO pretty!” Her wish, in fact, is pretty representative of how every member of my family uses lists to organize the tasks, hopes,Continue reading “Done is Better Than Perfect”
Grey Sea & Sky 