Festival of Colors

4:50- I had a harder time than you might think dressing all in one color. I have a purplish lace dress with a black lining. The directions said: wear all one color, not black or white. I have a lot of black, and wearing all grey seemed so lame. But I have bought my balloons, […]

Coffees of the Western Hemisphere

The coffee of at the gas station I’m the afternoon driver, half ‘n’ half not flavored please, as long as it’s liquid, styrofoam cup, $1.99. The coffee that is a trick: at home, 7 pm, who needs it, but to write, I have coffee. The coffee after dinner everyone was served at once, under stainless […]

Here and Elsewhere at New Museum

Once I was actually at the museum, with a guy who looked Muslim on one side of me and a guy who wore a yarmulkah on the other, I remembered ninth grade geography. My ninth grade geography teacher always did the middle east first. Get it over with, he said. Too depressing. For me, it […]

Where We Were

One of the ladies groaned, “She is like this every day,” and they mean the lady who must be told to sit at the table for dinner, who gets up and wanders away, must be told again, sits long enough to yell, “Why am I here?” and “This is not what I wanted!” and “How much […]