“Do you want to keep this?” I asked, holding the box of Christmas ornaments. “No, no room.” I decided to keep it. “What about these family photos?” “No, it’s not like I’m ever going to look at them again. I probably forgot half the people in there!” I keep that box, too. I’m the only one...
“The first time I saw it I was brushing my hair after a shower. I turned just so and saw in the mirror the dark spot on my shoulder. “My husband said it looked like a bruise, but it just kept getting worse. “The bruise turned into a boil, and then that was lanced, so I...
“Everyone wants to give a writer the perfect notebook. Over the years I’ve acquired stacks: one is leather, a rope of Rapunzel’s hair braids its spine. Another is tree-friendly, its paper reincarnated from diaries of poets now graying in cubicles. One is small and black as a funeral dress, its pages lined like the hands of...
It’s hard to find butterflies here, or even flies. There are bees, though, they’re always hanging around Washington Square Park, buzzing around the sticky sweet juice dripping down your hand from the popsicle you got at the ice-cream stand. You block out the sound of traffic and listen to the rasta drum beats and smell the...
