Poet Elizabeth Bishop's In the Waiting Room recounts the moment as a child that she recognized she was a separate self. What's your earliest memory and how does it reflect who you are now? And chapter 3 or Communion: A Memoir of Family, Secrets, and Love. catemcquaid.substack.com/p/whats-your...

How did your parents meet? It's an origin story that can be sweet or sour. Sometimes it's both. The story can seem written in stone when we're young. Has your perspective on your parents, and how they came together to make you, changed? Mine has. catemcquaid.substack.com/p/pray-pay-a...

I had a wonderful conversation with Jess T. Dugan. Their solo drawing show recently opened at Pulitzer Arts Foundation. They're in "Nuclear Family" at @griffinmuseum.bsky.social Photography. Jess is on this earth to connect and love. More in Ocean in a Drop: catemcquaid.substack.com/p/making-a-s...

Christina Zwart's "La Pucelle" at Boston Sculptors Gallery had an incubation process that began when she collected horseshoe crabs as a girl. There were many steps along the way, as she explains in this week's Work in Progress in Ocean in a Drop on Substack. catemcquaid.substack.com/p/honor-the-...