The Cut - For Better and for Worse

Two weeks after my husband, E., was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease that has no treatment or cure, he left me. At the time, we were preparing to depart on a long-planned family trip to Washington, D.C. Without warning, he declined to join us. He insisted that I take the kids without him, saying he preferred to stay back and clean out the garage. Objecting and pleading accomplished nothing, so I acquiesced. Maybe he just needed time alone to process what the diagnosis meant: His career was essentially over, and in some unknown period of time, life as he knew it would end too.

Don’t let the constant influx of bad news — that reminds us, don’t be surprised if your tax refund is smaller this year — numb you to the good news too, like Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election results. According to Twitter, NPR is America’s version of a state-affiliated propaganda outlet like RT. We don’t know why anyone would be even slightly surprised to hear that Florida has more lead pipes than any other state. A generation of Emilys has entered adulthood, and now the name is ubiquitous in pop culture. On the unexpected grief of a hysterectomy. And just want to say we love you, Mandy Moore.

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