For the love of God, hoist yourself out of that pit of self-loathing and read the Weekend Roundup:
In Yumi Sakugawa’s Saturday comic, a man discovers tiny trees growing on his right arm—only to realize that their refusal to obey seasonal weather betrays something deeper.
Just about every mother recognizes the departure of a college student from home as the conclusion of a chapter of her life, but Bernadette Murphy identifies the “last first day” of high school for her daughter as significant of much more; an unraveling of maternal identity, one of the last threads binding a failing marriage. Read more of Sunday’s essay here.
