Marriage and Mushrooms
On divorce and the fidelity beyond fulfillment | The Word in the Wild, Proper 22, Year B
A few months back, skimming over the website of the New York Times, my eye was caught by a question: “I think my husband has dementia. Can I leave him before it worsens?” Those words were the headline of the “Ethicist” column—a place for readers to pose their moral quandaries to a professional philosop…