It’s been painful for me to read about the number of elderly who have died in senior care facilities in the past few months. Since publishing Fling!, my novel that features Bubbles, a feisty and fun-loving ninety-year-old, I’ve booked readings in senior residences. I hoped that Bubbles would inspire these older readers to share her zest for life and her unwillingness to “go gentle into that good night,” as Dylan Thomas insisted of his father in his poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.” Thomas states that “Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Continue reading “The elderly killed by Covid 19 also should be remembered today!” →