I’ve spent most of the last six months in a state of self-perceived suspended animation. I felt, guided by the myopic view inside my head, that nothing about my life was changing or moving forward. That I was moving my legs (as if on a treadmill or going the wrong way on an [...]

Making my way down to the movies at the Ritz at the Bourse tonight, I started idly thinking about the possibility of running into someone I had once dated once I got there.  I don’t know what made this thought pop into my mind.  Possibly it was that I was going alone, which often ups [...]

Shucking corn was always one of my jobs while I was growing up. In the summers, when we would go to my grandma Bunny’s house out in Woodland Hills, I would be sheparded out to the front patio and seated on the bench of the picnic table. Whichever adult who had come out [...]

I am hot and sweaty and headache-y. Tonight in latihan, as I lay on the floor being quiet, ideas for writing projects flooded my head. Being that the intention of latihan is to let yourself be in your body, out of your brain and with the flow of the universe, it was not [...]

Sitting in my car at midnight on Monday night, outside a Dunkin’ Donuts, on the side of the Grand Central Parkway near LaGuardia Airport, I started thinking about the summer I spent in Hawaii when I was ten.  I spent 7 weeks there that year, living with my Uncle Wallace and his family.  Life with [...]

My parents knew each other two weeks when they decided to get married. When my dad proposed, my mom thought about it briefly and said, “Okay, but let’s not tell anyone in case we change our minds.” They didn’t change their minds, and six weeks after they met, they were married.
When I was [...]