Reflections of a Post-Middle-Aged Woman by M. Irene Taylor

Reflections of a Post-Middle-Aged Woman started as a class assignment and evolved into a personal essay tracing the author’s experiences as caregiver, then a one-woman play, and now a centerpiece for this chapbook. Through the personal essay, Reflections is an examination and a coming-to-terms with grief and guilt, an acknowledgement of those traumas we hold so close, and a complication of our compulsion to forgive.