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The Last Time They Needed Me

ByIan HwangOct 22, 20267 min read

The first sign was my phone. Or rather, the absence of it. For most of my working life, my days arrived already occupied. Before I had finished breakfast there were emails waiting: questions needing answers, decisions needing approval, problems needing attention. Somewhere, someone always needed something. After about thirty years, that stopped feeling like part […]

An old woman in a striped headscarf leans in holding a young goat while a white-bearded old man sits with folded hands and looks up at her in a dim room.

My Retired Husband Is Home All the…

ByIan HwangOct 24, 20266 min read

“Are you going out? Where? When will you be back?” It is a Tuesday, a little before eleven. He retired in March,…