This winter is kicking my ass. I am DRAGGING. It’s partly the brutal cold, it’s partly some health stuff, but it’s mostly the state of the world. I’m heartsick over the violence ICE has perpetrated and the fear that our immigrant and urban communities are living under, … [Read more...]
You Have to Be Flinchable
This weekend, I attended Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews’s inspiring conversation at The New Yorker Festival. The talk made me laugh—and also cry. There were moments I had to hold back sobs. This was also my experience of reading both Li’s and Toews’s work: moved so deeply and in so … [Read more...]
A Groundling’s View of Twelfth Night
My ninth-grader is obsessed with Shakespeare, so last week my husband and I decided to wait in line for free tickets to Twelfth Night. While we’ve gone to Shakespeare in the Park a few times with corporate tickets, we’ve never waited on the line and experienced this particular … [Read more...]
This Is Happiness
Tomorrow, July 16, will be the first anniversary of my mother’s death. Recently, when I think of my mother, the same visceral image springs to mind. Over and over: a slit opens in my chest like a fault line in the earth of my body. I picture an inverted mountain, a kind of V, … [Read more...]
May I Hover Like a Gull
…Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? Yes, why not? As you may know, I recently dedicated myself to a new writing practice—a promise to copy a poem a day. And here I am … [Read more...]
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