As it turns out, anything you do alone by yourself after having a baby feels like a vacation. Taking a dump, sitting in traffic, waiting on line at the bank… these moments of solitude bring with them a sense of escapism for which I feel rescue-dog grateful. Who ever thought a trip to the bank could be exhilarating?
June 11, 2021
“He is cute.” Catherine said about the bartender. Then she told me that she hadn’t had sex with her husband in a year and half. I was shocked but, tried not to show it.
June 9, 2021
He had to be wrong. Max and Eva Krasner would never touch ham, let alone serve it. Maybe a helper in the store did it for them, although the helpers would have been my father and his brothers.
June 7, 2021
For almost a year, I’ve been trying to score a can—one can!– in stores or online, but the product is perennially out-of-stock which has made me want it even more.
June 6, 2021
Little did I know, that despite Havana’s reputation in the west for being a sex-fuelled, boozed, and debauched city, in the corner of my eye hid one of the most profound interactions of my life.
June 4, 2021
Later, drying off on the rocks in the warm midday sun, I took up all the space I needed. I thought to myself that the world may well be created by words and stories, but another part of it is created by gasps.
June 3, 2021
Lawmakers refuse to look critically at what happened on 1/6/2021. Meg Poulin gives us a compelling reason why they needed to act. Enough is enough.
June 1, 2021
As I sat in the chapel eating in silence, I had my answer. On the morning of your son’s death, you apparently eat blueberry yogurt.
May 29, 2021
It always starts with a woman. Plunging into a clawfoot tub, burning her skin in waves. Or poised at the edge of her bed, head turned as if to pose for a portrait – only nobody else is there.
May 28, 2021
As an adoptee, the “creepiest children’s book” was a window out of my own loneliness.
May 26, 2021
I don’t recall the first time my mother told me the story how Pop-Pop died, it’s always been our family narrative and it goes like this: Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop were drunk and had an argument, she hit him in the head with a frying pan and he never woke up.
May 24, 2021
Some cultures believe that birds, like ravens and crows, to be omens of tragedy to come, but some believe birds provide a vessel for the souls who have departed.
May 22, 2021
It’s time for the second class and you have no idea where that building is. Luckily for you, two Danish brothers created Google Maps so you can input your walking destination with ease
May 15, 2021
Being an aunt changed me. It’s a love that hums in my blood, sewn into my soul, unchanged by time, space, and even death. But there is an emptiness in me that sometimes aches for more, a loss no one else can see.
May 9, 2021