Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Tag: adult children

  • Parents: The Other Side

    Am I a hypocrite? I talk about missing my sons, and how far away they are and how it breaks my heart, but in all that I never really talk about how I am with my own parents. It’s complicated. But I often think of them now, and how I don’t see them much, or keep…

  • “Goin’ to California…

    …with an aching in my heart.” Robert Plant sang that in a song once. Of all the California songs running through my mind, that one rings most true right now. My heart aches. And nothing is wrong. All is well. Better than. But–purely physical–my heart hurts. I haven’t seen my beloved baby boy (who is, um,…