Day: May 21, 2024

When Hurricane Esther formed off Africa’s western Sahara in September 1961, I was already intimate with turbulence. The newly launched TIROS satellite tracked her 150-mph winds as she teased the Eastern Seaboard – much like my mother’s moods swept through our Stamford, Connecticut household, unpredictable and fierce. Our stretch of privileged coastline, that gilded nipple…