Things That Keep Me Here | The First Time

It’s time to gird your loins and read your queer elders.

Don’t laugh, but she’s only realized now, about to officially become a senior, that she’s fabulous.

My mother died after nearly two years in isolation due to COVID-19 protocols, not in her 40+ years home full of memories, but in a new independent/assisted living unit in a Catholic senior’s facility on Five Points Road in the middle of nowhere, skirting w…