We had a few more meals together: an Indian dinner, with cloth napkins and red sauces, and pizza at a corner table. Then I got my financial aid statement from USC-San Diego. It was more than I’d gotten anywhere else—much more. The building I lived in then had a row of brass mailboxes that must […]
Read More Household Words: Part 4I don’t know what possessed me to watch the documentary “The Business of Being Born.” Several women give birth at home in this movie, and you see every detail of how it happens. I wondered– very theoretically since I currently am in no danger of giving birth– whether labor is more like getting a root […]
Read More Virgin Birth“The French have a horror of the smell of cooking food, whereas Americans find it appetizing; in the nineteenth century the first French Rothschild went so far in this aversion as to have the food brought from the kitchen to the dining room on an odourless, because underground, train.” –Edmund White, The Flaneur (I couldn’t […]
Read More Fetishes: Annotated BibliographyEveryone is waiting for someone. Everyone you see, his heart is an airport in an ice storm. Some people are waiting on someone to pair up with, and others are waiting for someone to stop telling that story again or to load the dishwasher or be like she used to be. Western people are uniquely […]
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