Status Updates From Lost & Found: Reflections o...

prose all the way

[Setting this one aside & might come back when I'm feeling more generous - it's sweet and occasionally thoughtful, but too mild, too... comforting the comfortable for me rn? It's full of cultural references, but the most recent is One Art from 1976. Who cares what Freud said about anything?! I feel like the target reader is a wealthy 80-year-old... in 1985. (This'll hopefully change when we get to the gay part?)]

In a kinder world, one where my father's early years had been less desperate [...] I suspect that he would have chosen a very different line of work. As a professor like my sister, maybe, or as a writer, like me.

[In what world could a career as a lawyer be a loss!? I can't relate to this world in which professor or full-time writer is a "line of work" that can be "chosen" and not a lottery win!?]