Bridget Baiss

By Bridget Baiss As new details emerge about the tragedy onset of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust,” I feel a growing sense of déjà vu. It’s becoming clear that the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on a New Mexico ranch is eerily similar to another on-set firearm fatality nearly three decades before, while filming the 1993 “The Crow.

By Bridget Baiss COVID slowed, but didn’t stop, my 8th grade daughter’s adolescence. “Mom, what do you think about dating? We’re talking about it in class.” Online class, that is, which my 14-year-old daughter Brooke attends sitting at her desk in her darkened bedroom, surrounded by candy wrappers, dirty socks, and a few stuffed animals from childhood. Meanwhile, I’m at my desk two doors down the hall. Brooke’s 8 a.m. text caught me off guard.

Staring at my rigid and deformed left thumb and the apple I wish I could slice, I remind myself to be patient. Slicing, opening jars, and buttoning clothes will have to wait, like dinner parties, live theater and my daughter’s field-hockey games. If all goes well, my functional left thumb and the Covid vaccine will be available by summer. One morning in January 2019, after dropping my daughter at school in New York City, I was struck by a large SUV and sent flying onto the pavement.