The question of forgiveness is a tricky one, especially in today’s world. As I reflected on Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower and its exploration of forgiveness, I found myself drifting between the historical context of the Holocaust and the ways similar moral dilemmas echo into the present. The moments when harm feels so vast and personal […]

Somehow script writers haven’t figured out how to include the second generation of Earnshaws, Lintons, and Heathcliffs into the story that would expose Heathcliff as the abusive, vengeful old man he becomes after Catherine’s death. For example, I would say kidnapping your ex-lover/foster sibling’s daughter and forcing her to marry your son isn’t what I would call a romantic gesture. Or is it? It’s complicated.

Sometimes I find a half-scrawled story like the one above months later, and forget where I was going with it. I no longer connect with the character, so it is abandoned to the center console or the glovebox.