The First Twenty Reasons I Didn’t Write on April 22
The First Twenty Reasons I Didn’t Write on April 22 1. I am still a working woman in 2022. 2. I have three sons who need to be fed and taken places and my husband can’t do every bloody thing for us, though he does do most of it. 3. I have a dog. 4. That week, I baked a cake and forgot the sugar. And I baked a corn pudding and forgot the eggs. (Truly disgusting, thanks for asking.) Also, I forgot the password on my work computer after a long weekend. Naturally, I convinced myself I had dementia or a brain tumor like my old granny, Lillian, and I got so wrapped up imagining my funeral, shopping for cotton shrouds and seaweed caskets for my plot at the green cemetery that I didn’t remember to write. 5. I couldn’t find my special composition notebook with the gold tape on the spine. 6. We were getting close to my baby brother’s 47 th birthday...