Susie Bright's Journal

How Can They Call Themselves Catholic?

I’m not naive about my working class Catholic upbringing in the 60s. The parishes had terrible secrets. There were John Bircher lunatics running the Catholic school I attended. We were accustomed to corporal punishment of the most sadistic kind, and there was terrible shaming of the girls and boys for... Read more →

The Loneliest Generation - What’s That All About?

Today, I read a WSJ report on the twenty-first century epidemic of Boomer generation singletons (1946-1964). The reporter submitted a rigorous argument as to why elder isolation is no joke. Is loneliness different for the Boomers? — or is it just another expression of their privileged malaise? I’m at the... Read more →

Can Opener

“Have you seen the hair conditioner?” No one answered me. “Never mind. I found it.” I couldn’t tell if everyone had left our motel room, or if I was finally on the receiving end of a well-deserved silent treatment. I was a bore and a bitch and all I did... Read more →