The Great Perhaps
Kim FosterEssays about life + growing older with no fucking grace.
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On Reading.
A mum reading in Carl Schurz Park, near her toddler. 1980. New York Times.
Edie, our 20-year-old, is home with us for a month before she leaves for a summer physics class at a university in England. I found her this morning, and every mor...
To Build A More Stable Family.
Alma Thomas, (1891–1978), Snoopy Sees Earth Wrapped in Sunset, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Last year, we had the pleasure of welcoming a surprise bonus daughter into our lives.
We had closed out our foster care license years ago, but...
Last Things.
Photographer: Henry Hargrieves. From the series No Seconds. The last meals of death row inmates, just before their executions.
David is in Noosa, Australia. With his dad, John, known to his grandkids as Poppy.
Yesterday, they threw John...
The Mums.
Photography: Melissa Ann Pinney. From the series “Regarding Emma”
Years ago, when David and I first fell in love, we cooked dinner together for his work friends and colleagues, and his brother and sister-in-law. He invited everyone over to...
The Boomers are Fucking Up Everything!
Ed Kashi: Woman plays the slots in Reno, Nevada. 2000
This weekend I read aloud a New York Times opinion piece in the car to David. Children in head phones lined the back seats. The April 2026 piece, Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s...
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Social Scientist + James Beard Award-winning author of The Meth Lunches (St. Martin's. 2023). Essays about the philosophy of living + growing older with no fucking grace.
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