
Raw Reflections from the Road—and Home Caregiving, travel, aging, and forgiveness—told with raw honesty and a touch of humor. Emmy-winning filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum shares life with her 102-year-old mother, unexpected adventures, and hard-won wisdom.
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What happened to my body when I began excavating my childhood story while making Look At Us Now, Mother! and how my hands seemed to know what I had not yet fully understood.
Recording my story in Cold Spring
I flew to New York, took Metro-North up the Hudson to Cold Spring, and spent two and a half days in a studio reading my own life aloud.
Cold Spring is beautiful, perched along the river, the kind of place...
A happy hour, a wheelchair, a sunset, a daughter behind the camera
I am lucky to still have my mother.
But that is not the whole story.
People write it in the comments on our social media, where we have 128,000 followers on Instagr...
NOTE: Although this happened around Yom Kippur, I’m sharing it now because the longing for an apology is not seasonal.
A few days before Yom Kippur, I was doing what I always do now: planning content.
That’s the unglamorous part of being...
Dear readers,
This piece is about one of those days that reminded me why I keep choosing curiosity, even when life feels overwhelming.
Have you ever left the house with no real plan and come home with a story, a connection, or a reminder...
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LOOK AT US NOW, MOTHER! documentary” Filmmaker, photographer, writer, TED speaker, Forgiveness coach. BULLIED TO BESTIES: A DAUGHTER'S JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS memoir.
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