Maria Sorrentino

For Rachna Shroff · 11d ago

I read this morning, on the train, that she kept planning her division's future even while she was fighting her own cancer. Forty seven. That's the line I can't put down.

For Helen Konek · 27d ago

my mom sent me that igloo photo probably ten times over the years, always with some version of "look how young she was." she texted me again this morning, just a black square and "she died." 95 years old. that picture taught me more about Inuit life than anything in school ever did.

For Elvin Hernandez · 29d ago

I used to get so annoyed sitting in the backup by that stretch of 95 near Fairfield, cursing the cones and the slow lane. Reading this I feel sick about every eye roll I ever gave those crews. 60 years old, sixteen years on that job, just trying to get home safe like the rest of us.

For Pat Coughtrey · 21 Sept 2026

never read most of his council stuff, not really my thing, but I found his old piece on the Christmas Toy Appeal while looking up Newham history online and it actually stuck with me. that's something.

For Gopiram Bargayn Burabhakat · 18 Sept 2026

never heard the name until today, but someone wrote "a revered Vaishnava artist and a living legend of Sattriya culture" and I believe it just from that sentence alone.

For Ana Buza · 18 Sept 2026

I sat two rows behind her in a first year philosophy seminar in Sevilla, only for a semester before I transferred back to the States. She always had a battered copy of something underlined to pieces, and she'd stay after class to ask the professor one more question nobody else thought of. Six years her father has been fighting for answers and I still think about that girl with the underlined book.

For Monti Parungao · 5 Sept 2026

I never met him but his love for Audrey in those videos was so real, so full. That kind of showing up for the people you love, that's what stays with you. My heart to his family.

For Francois Rosse · 5 Sept 2026

I discovered his piano improvisations on a France Musique recording during the pandemic and it changed how I listened to everything. The way he let composition and spontaneity talk to each other was just luminous. He will be deeply missed.

For Roberta Flack · 4 Aug 2025

My mother played First Time Ever I Saw Your Face on repeat when I was small. Now I do the same for my daughter. That's legacy right there. Thank you, Miss Flack.

To John Boyd’s tribute on James (Seamus) Collings’s page · 12d ago

Nice that it travelled that far.