December's Ancient Ancestors, New Work, and Why the New D*sney Movie Made Me Cry
Also featured: talking about death at pre-K, the interstitium, editorial decisions when writing about a new play, early onset Parkinson's, Fever Ray, building community, and transitions.
I had a conference with my kid’s pre-K teacher the other day. All is well except that we’re encouraged to remind him about what is appropriate to talk about at school and what is not. The example given was his line of questioning around death. What happens to our bodies when we die. Sometimes we cremate people but what happens to the bones? Do they burn, too? His teacher wants to engage with him on these questions and has to manage them in a way that doesn’t upset other kids. (“Are we going to burn my grandma?!” was the example given of what an upset or scared kid might say. What, of course, we’d want to avoid.)
