Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Sadness

I work in a building that offers many services including unemployment, WIC (food for women, infants and children), unemployment, jobs and training, emergency assistance, help with heating bills, low income legal advice, and mental health services. In the women's restrooms, someone put up fliers offering day and evening sessions for victims of domestic abuse. At the bottom of the flier are tear-off phone numbers where you can call to sign up for the sessions. Every day I see more and more phone numbers are torn off these fliers. That makes me really sad.

The Nest

In Cynthia D'Aprix's novel, The Nest, the four siblings of the Plumb Family gather together. Before their father died he set aside s...