A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
How our life ends isn’t always up to us, but that question too often must be answered by loved ones and health care workers who don’t know what we would want.
“Some of us live and some of us die Someday God is going to tell us why I don’t travel much, least of all for social engagement, but it was both a duty and a pleasure to travel to Iperu in Ogun State on Easter Saturday to attend the 90th birthday celebration ofMrsOmobosolaOnaeko, mother to
Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.
Jimmy Carr has recalled how he almost died after contracting meningitis as a child. Speaking to Kathy Burke on her Where There's A Will, There's A Wake podcast, the 51-year-old comedian, 51, said he "nearly didn’t make it" when he was being treated in a hospital in Ireland at three years old. Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord that can cause life-threatening sepsis and result in permanent damage to the brain or nerves. "I kind of...
The former RTE star, 50, spoke to comedian and author David Walliams for the pilot episode of The Bookshelf, which can be streamed from today
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the critical issues facing current House Speaker Mike Johnson, as his fellow Republicans try to push him out over his efforts to pass Ukraine aid.
Those at the rally made clear they support "Full expansion now," which they frequently chanted, and not the Senate proposal, which its drafters have referred to as "expansion lite."
The mother of late “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said that her
The man accused in the death of a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detective in 2016 has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in court on Wednesday, April 24.
The pressures of defending himself in civil and criminal trials while also running for the presidency is having a serious effect on Donald Trump's well-being.That is the opinion of former Trump White House advisor Miles Taylor, who recently observed that his old boss seems "unwell" and that his decline since he lost re-election is readily apparent.In an interview with Salon's Chauncey DeVega, Taylor — who wrote the book "A Warning" about White House goings-on in 2019 under the pen name of...