My personal essay, “Of Sound Mind and Memory” appears in the fall 2021 issue of The Missouri Review. It’s a reflection on my years as an estate planning paralegal at a large Rhode Island law firm, where the people I worked with became family and the legal documents I wrote reawakened my love of language. If you’d like a copy of the print edition of TMR you can order it by callinTMR’s offices at 573-882-4474 or contacting its associate managing editor, Dedra Earl, at EarlD@missouri.edu.

Here’s a photo from my law firm days of my friend Kate (right), who I write about in the essay, and me out on Cape Cod.