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Somewhere Else
by Lani Wright
Excerpts:
When my mother was dying, I developed a great urge to go out and do things I’d never done before — things I’d always wanted to do, or maybe something that just occurred to me while leafing through National Geographic in the dentist’s office. I would guess that this is a common occurrence among middle-aged children, poised at the final orphaning, listening to the opening strains of the overture to the rest of their finite life. It is, in any event, how I ended up in Nepal, a tiny speck under the towering Himalayas. I went there, I think, to find out if I was still alive . . .
