Society & Culture
“Dad had Parkinson’s. He found that seal fat was very helpful. The cousins who hunted - in the beginning, they would bring us neat little packets of seal...but towards the end, they were just leaving, like, half a seal in a bucket. [5:40]“He was always embarrassed that I wasn’t a lady. And I was always like, “You taught me to buck wood and change oil. I don’t remember any tea parties.”" [7:00]“I find [that] if I try to write to an outline or if I write to a plan, my muse gets inhibited.” [14:14]“I was realizing how few years I have left if I’m writing a book about every five years. Okay, there are books I won’t be able to write.” [21:30]"I also don’t have a lot of anxiety about what people think about me. I remember being very concerned about that. And them menopause just wipes that out.” [22:40]