A-for me, the opera ends with Liu’s (and Puccini’s) death.
B-I like how Christine Goerke interprets Turandot through the lens of generational trauma and the terror of Lo-u-Ling’s r*** and murder. And yes, all opera characters need therapy!

Honestly, how these people didn’t learn this lesson in elementary school (like I did) is beyond me.

Thank you for your work, M. My husband’s a Ukrainian Jew who left Kyiv in 1980. His family simply did not talk about it-ever. Your writing always touches me, and helps me educate my daughter about her heritage.

I’ve been ruminating on this, as well as how Jesse Armstrong (and a British history professor I met in Oct) so accurately predicted the election. It’s almost like the British schools teach history or something.

My Republican senators are not answering their phones today. This is the first day I can’t reach them by any phone number.

The dissonance between last year’s pick and this -just another reason I’m completely checking out from the news for my mental health.

Then the journalist couldn’t seem to understand why he felt uncomfortable reading the letters.