REALITY CHECK
As someone whose mother had dementia, watching this season of “This is Us” was too difficult—not because of the parts my mom experienced, but because of the parts I wish she had.
Bobbi Dempsey is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and others. She is a reporting fellow at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and an editorial fellow at Community Change. She specializes in writing about topics related to poverty and income inequality and is currently working on a memoir about growing up in poverty and moving roughly 70 times before graduating high school.