Moms and Heartbreak Doubled
The 24 hours of this March 3, 2014, have included fitful sleep and foggy waking hours, a half-finished story about my mother and her best friend (soul mate) of 40 … Continue reading
What We Might (Not) Dream
Maybe it’s because I dream big when I’m awake, and have always had trouble sleeping, but I hardly ever dream when I’m asleep. Or at least I don’t recall those … Continue reading
Playing Games with Others’ Lives
This morning, I started overhearing a woman telling her friend in what sounded like glowing words that Google has decided to rent a building at 16th and Harrison streets in … Continue reading
Gratitude Is
There are many methods offered for reminding oneself to be grateful, such as the daily practice of penning a tidbit of appreciation on a slip of paper and depositing it … Continue reading
What Silence Might Say
On the one hand, we need a certain amount of faith in life in order to keep moving through it with a modicum of hope. We need to have faith … Continue reading
A Telling Time
Time has folds in it that I don’t rightly seem to comprehend anymore. Flashbacks pop into my head like present-day happenings or embodied sensations. The future, when it occasionally makes … Continue reading
Love Is
In the Big Apple, big hearts seem to get trampled under foot. Desire is held out, temptingly, in the millions of people and billions of dreams and trillions of capital … Continue reading
