Exhaust the Little Moment
by Anna QuindlenI was 19 years old when I was told that my mother had ovarian cancer and was not going to live much longer.
I’d just finished my first year of university, but I was the oldest of five children, and my mother was dying. So at the beginning of what would have been my second year, I packed up my university things and found myself instead making meatloaf and administering doses of morphine in a house in the suburbs. It is amazing how much you can learn in one year.... Read more
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Anna Quindlen is a journalist, author, and mother of three. For over 25 years, her writing has appeared in some of America’s most influential newspapers and magazines, and her books have made the bestseller lists for both fiction and non-fiction. In 1992, her New York Times column, Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She wrote a bi-weekly column in Newsweek magazine until her retirement in 2009. She lives in New York City with her husband and children.
