A Nightmare on Rathburn Avenue

This started as a commentary on how Hollywood often casts maternal roles with young actresses who are laughably too young for them (a friend once told me that when she was 20, she was cast in a commercial as the mother of two teenage boys). It took a left turn into something very different about a difficult phase when I lived on a street called Rathburn Avenue. I’m not sure what it means, and I apologize for nothing.