When I was 8 years old, my mother was expecting another baby (I already had a 4-year-old brother). I desperately wanted a baby sister. People were speculating about the gender of the baby, and at age 8, I thought it was an election! I was very political at a young age and was already deeply
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My sister is in town from Chicago this week, for a last visit to Connecticut before moving to California to take a tenure-track assistant professor position. She is dissertating (is that a verb?) this summer to get her Ph.D. in political science. She is 29, and I am 34. At 29, I was getting married
Today is kind of a macabre milestone: it’s the day I have officially lived longer than my father. So I’ve been thinking a lot about The Nukes – my Original Nuclear Family. The Nukes consisted of my father, who was a salesman of many different products, mostly home improvement services; my mother, who was a
