One of these days we'll both be fine.
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One of these days we’ll both be fine
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About One of these days we’ll both be fine
One of these days we’ll both be fine was something my mother said to me earlier this year when we were both having a bad day.
At the time it was slightly sad, a little funny, but also comforting. So I thought it would be a good title for a flash memoir project about my mother where I will be writing about her alcoholic years, our relationship now, her dementia, navigating the health care system, creativity, and what’s going on in the world in short sometimes sad, sometimes humorous vignettes dare I say anecdotes (that was the title of my last book).
I started a version of this project years ago with notes and videos and photographs here and there. It was a stop and start sort of thing, but in this moment of crisis, I have turned to this project completely to get me through. It’s not really a choice or a decision, but I’m compelled to write it.
Please forgive the typos. These are often dashed off in the middle of the night and are not meant to be fully polished pieces. Maybe one day I’ll collect them in a book, but right now they are for me, for here and now, and for anyone else who needs them.
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This isn’t the first time I’ve written about my mother. She was one of the subjects of my first book, a novel in verse called Onion Man (which I’m planning to serialize as a podcast) where I wrote about her alcoholism when I was a teenager. And of course I wrote about her in my story collection Anecdotes.
I always find that writing projects are like pets for me. They find a way to find me. I don’t usually have to go looking for them.
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The more I suffer or my mother suffers, the more I feel in tune with the suffering of the world. My activism wants to kick in even more rather than stop during this difficult time.
Right now I’m running a monthly draw via an interview series to raise money for organizations that I care about.
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