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...lucky daughter: I got to be the final caregiver for both my parents. For almost 12 years I cared for them and handled their affairs. My mother passed away four years ago, and 13 months later my father passed away--in my home, with the wonderful assistance of hospice. I always kept my sisters, who were not able to move to help our parents in the way I did, informed about the true medical condition of our parents, and they have always recognized and appreciated what...
...results? My mom, still a Facebook neophyte, accepted her arrangement almost immediately, although I soon destroyed any goodwill by telling her I thought her flowers would have sat wilting in a warehouse for several months before she figured out how to get them. (She replied, "Why do you think I'm not intelligent enough to figure this out, Dan? That's a bit disconcerting.") Sorry...
...Almost at once they moved in together in a tiny Brooklyn apartment, where they worked on their art in penniless contentment. "We hadn't much money but we were happy," she writes. (Reader, beware--Smith has a weakness for mannered prose.) But poverty is easier to bear when you see everything through the lens of art, when a blue rayon dress is your "East of Eden outfit" and you go to your job in a bookstore dressed all in black like Anna Karina in a Godard movie...
...never know it. It picks you. Coming from a West Indian background, wanting a career in a creative field is almost like a death wish. But I was compelled. Once music got me, it got me good. I used to work at this movie theater in New York, and I would save my pennies and would do layaway plans on keyboards and musical gadgets. They were astronomically expensive for someone who was, like, 17 years...
Wakefield's methods were the subject of what was almost certainly the longest medical-misconduct inquiry in British history. The General Medical Council, which licenses British doctors, ruled on Jan. 28 that Wakefield and two of his co-investigators had acted dishonestly and irresponsibly and shown "callous disregard" for the 12 children in the study, which suggested that symptoms of autism in eight of the children and gastrointestinal trouble in all 12 were somehow linked with exposure to the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine...