New

I know it’s awful to say but the smell of the subway (the regular smell, not the smell of the subway when it’s 115 degrees) was immediately soothing. Immediately I knew where I was, who I was, and what I was about: The City. I walked into the Drama Book Store in Times Square, and […]

Bats

I liked the bat. It was a soul, a ghost, and it was welcome. I shouldn’t leave the door partly open. The cat wants to go in and out as she pleases, out to the balcony, up on her catwalk. I don’t have a screen door there. Screen doors are so bourgeoise. When I went […]

Order

Today is the day I sort. There is a day, maybe a week into my time off, that I must sort. I didn’t know today was the day. But then I walked past my bookcases of old journals and I knew I had to sort them. It seems like when they say pregnant women need […]

Crowned

Charles and I don’t appear to have much in common, but as I was driving by the cemetery on the way to work, and thinking about how annoying it is that the Buddha was so right about so many things, life is suffering, Charles was also suffering. Getting ready to appear on international television for […]