Grand

The first time, I walked past the French church. It wasn’t a big churchy building, just two glass doors that if you looked, you could see there was a churchy space. This is midtown Manhattan, not a particularly churchy place. I was only twenty minutes late. I had gotten in my head that I needed […]

Yes

Lois Lowry taught me who Freud was. A guy prominent enough to have a bust, one that her character, Anastasia, kept in her room and talked to. Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst was the name of one of the books I loved. Reading about a Freud bust, a big Victorian house in the city of higher […]

Five Truths and Assorted Lies

Five things that are true: one, there is a spider in my apartment. He is fat and round like a ringmaster, brown and fuzzy. He has a huge web in the living room, between a tattered white stained glass window that is leaning, and the real window. Behind him is a view of the sections […]

Happy Monday

I had three job interviews in one day, which in some countries is punishment for shoplifting. I have never shoplifted. I am much too nervous to try. First I went down into the right subway, which felt wrong, crossed the street, down into the wrong one, then back across the street to the right one. […]