Two things I have come to understand during my benign existence, marked by a disproportionate maturity:  In the first episode of Mike Flanagan’s “The Haunting of Hill House,” adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel of the same name (I have yet to be moved to read the novel), Steven Crain, eldest of the Crain siblings, tells…

Analyzing the differences between what it means to not have a mother and to have a mother that is “lost.” In her memoir “Blood Orange Night,” Melissa Bond details lots of difficult things. Her experience being a mother, having a child with down syndrome, her sleepless, numbing nights, and her eventual addiction to benzodiazepines. It…