Opinion: A call can come at any moment. It’s teaching me the importance of ‘one day at a time’

Early last month, I reread, not for the first time, Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here,” first published in the New Yorker almost 30 years ago. It’s about a mother handed the terrible news that her 1-year-old has cancer. A passage in it struck me like a missive from… Continue reading Opinion: A call can come at any moment. It’s teaching me the importance of ‘one day at a time’