I've found myself thinking a lot about what the future looks and feels like at different ages. America has never been hospitable to the old compared to many other societies. Is it worse to be looking at it all from the vantage point of a thirty-year-old with so much before her? Who knows. All we can do is what you are doing: living one d…
I've found myself thinking a lot about what the future looks and feels like at different ages. America has never been hospitable to the old compared to many other societies. Is it worse to be looking at it all from the vantage point of a thirty-year-old with so much before her? Who knows. All we can do is what you are doing: living one day at a time and going about the business of living.
Would you share a link or the source where you found Atwood's essay about how and why she wrote The Handmaid's Tale? Is it her Substack?
I've found myself thinking a lot about what the future looks and feels like at different ages. America has never been hospitable to the old compared to many other societies. Is it worse to be looking at it all from the vantage point of a thirty-year-old with so much before her? Who knows. All we can do is what you are doing: living one day at a time and going about the business of living.
Would you share a link or the source where you found Atwood's essay about how and why she wrote The Handmaid's Tale? Is it her Substack?
I should have said. It's in her book Burning Questions.