I write about family, music, relationships, and the stuff we inherit without noticing.

A lot of it starts with music. Not nostalgia, just what was playing while everything else was falling apart or working out or both at once. What a song cost you. What a band meant at twenty and what it means now that you're not.

Same story with everything else. Caregiving, grief, marriage, divorce, starting over. I'm not handing out advice. I'm just paying attention to the gap between what people say they want and what they actually do about it.

Read on Substack:

https://substack.com/@maryann88