Tag: children

An elderly woman making pies with a young woman

When my grandmother was spirited away by dementia and no longer recognized me, I stopped visiting her in the nursing home. I didn’t understand this at the time but now think that I just wanted to remember her baking lemon cream pies or waving at me as she rode around on her lawnmower cropping t…

Young casual woman sitting working on laptop with business data

“Seven Up,” a famous British documentary series, interviewed 7-year-old schoolchildren in 1964 and filmed them every seven years after that. Over the documentary’s 49-year span, viewers watched the children’s lives take shape. A boy at an upper-crust boarding school goes to college and on to teach math at a prestigious private school. A girl educated…