On the brink of 60, while healing from unexpected surgery, Alison Krupnick bonds with her daughter’s molting orchid mantis.| oldster.substack.com
"I have scars from my Covid-era surgeries and will soon have another scar from my breast cancer surgery. In some ways, I view them the way some people view wrinkles, as evidence that I have lived."| oldster.substack.com