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  • 1 month ago | memoirland.substack.com | Saba Sams |Cathrin Bradbury |Elizabeth Lee |JoAnn Stevelos

    Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by Sari Botton, now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. ⬇️First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays.

  • 1 month ago | thewalrus.ca | Cathrin Bradbury

    “Aunt Cathrin, I feel uncomfortable when you body-shame.”My niece Keogh was washing local lettuces for dinner at our rented ranch house on Hornby Island, a three-ferry trip into the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of British Columbia. Outside the kitchen window, the sea slowly came in for the second time that day, cooling the flat rocks that had basked in the sun all afternoon, and us along with them. I have two sisters.

  • 2 months ago | thewalrus.ca | Cathrin Bradbury

    I entered the sliding doors of the Porter lounge at the Ottawa airport to a long and narrow room. At the far end, near the cooler of Evian water and plastic-wrapped croissants, a woman was perched cross-legged on a steep chair, her hair in a high ponytail. She gave the impression of reading three things at once—phone, book, papers—and bouncing precariously as she did. Even though her back was to me, and I hadn’t seen her in almost fifteen years, I knew there was only one person it could be.

  • Jan 19, 2025 | mykawartha.com | Cathrin Bradbury

    At a dinner party of three-quarter-lifers last weekend, Donald Trump’s economic and possibly tactical invasion of Canada dominated the conversation. After hearing our resistance plans, I’ll say this to Trump: you have no idea of the freedom-fighter you’ve unleashed in Canada’s over 60s. The zesty host, to my right, plotted a subversive cell of himself and four friends, all lifelong backwoods skiers.

  • Jan 19, 2025 | thespec.com | Cathrin Bradbury

    At a dinner party of three-quarter-lifers last weekend, Donald Trump’s economic and possibly tactical invasion of Canada dominated the conversation. After hearing our resistance plans, I’ll say this to Trump: you have no idea of the freedom-fighter you’ve unleashed in Canada’s over 60s. The zesty host, to my right, plotted a subversive cell of himself and four friends, all lifelong backwoods skiers.

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