My grandmother stands there in front of the church in her handmade yellow suit, next to my mother on the day of her First Communion, May 12, 1963. My mother is seven years old and my grandmother twenty-seven—a mother of four, smiling in the sun on that spring day, the tree behind them just starting […]
Lauren Rheaume
Lauren Rheaume is an essayist and the HR and operations manager at GrubStreet in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work has been published at Boston Accent, Punctuate, and Crack the Spine, among others.