Wanna Talk About Whether Or Not Everyone on Doctor Odyssey Is Dead?

Plus, recent celeb memoirs and some other fluffy stuff.

Well. Here we are. I know it’s discordant to be writing about and talking about frivolous things right now. Like most of our Broads, if not all, I have cycled through a whole range of emotions since Tuesday night, and where I’ve landed is in grief. It reminds me obliquely of when my dad died. The smiles and the occasional laughs felt like they had no business coexisting with our despair, but there they were anyway; inexplicably, the day-to-day mundanities remain the same, all while there is a looming, malevolent void still taking shape. Obviously we can’t sit down and ignore it, but neither do I want to surrender to it. I do think it’s okay to be selfish about joy even as we contemplate the fights ahead. Find it, hoard it, share it. We’re going to need it. And so we open up a new document and hope to give our brains, and yours, something else to fixate on for a few blessed minutes a day. I’m trying to balance my own feelings with helping my anxious kids cope with their disappointment …