by Juliet.Wittman | Jun 7, 2022 | Language and Life, Theatre, Thoughts on Aging, Westword
This article originally appeared in Westword. Curious Theatre Company’s founder and producing director, Chip Walton, recently announced the company’s 25th season, which opens September 10 with Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery. This announcement was coupled...
by Juliet.Wittman | May 16, 2022 | Language and Life, Thoughts on Aging, Westword
A draft of a Supreme Court decision banning abortion has leaked, and although reporters are carefully explaining that this is preliminary and may yet be edited, the import is clear: The court plans to destroy Roe v. Wade. Abortion will be illegal, and it seems no...
by Juliet.Wittman | Apr 27, 2022 | Thoughts on Aging
There was a Pig that sat alone Beside a ruined Pump: By day and night he made his moan— It would have stirred a heart of stone To see him wring his hoofs and groan, Because he could not jump. Right now I am feeling the deepest empathy with Lewis Carroll’s...
by Juliet.Wittman | Apr 25, 2022 | Thoughts on Aging
In less than two weeks, I will turn eighty. It feels huge. When I was young, no one I knew lived that long. My father died at the age of forty-three when I was four; my mother lived to be seventy, and my stepfather seventy-three. I encountered my first...
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