One Went To School, One

I Believe That I Am Past My Prime. I Had Reckoned On My Prime Lasting Till I Was At Least Fifty.

A Lot Of Writing About Being A Mother Is Not So Much Writing About The Kids Themselves. They Become Placeholders For The Shift That Happens When You're Suddenly In Charge Of Other People.

There Are Responsibilities Which Are Parental Responsibilities And Those Are The Types Of Things We Prepare The Next Generation For, But No One Tells You How To Answer The Kids' Questions In The Backseat Of The Car When They Want To Know What The World Is For Or Where They Came From Or Why Any Of This Is Happening.

It's Funny To Be Pigeonholed So Late In Life But There We Are.

I'd Done "gosford Park," A Film That Julian Fellowes Had Written That Robert Altman Directed.