giving up the ghost

11 years since my mother died, or how I shouldn't be trusted with her (whole) story

It must be difficult having a writer in the family, constantly carving up your daily life, and especially your biggest tragedies and happiest moments, for the page. “Everything is copy,” Nora Ephron famously said, much to the chagrin of her family members (particularly her ex-husband Carl Bernstein, who was vilified [understandably] in the most scathing…