Decorating

I had changed into flats and put on my sweater. I was still wearing my lace skirt for going out nice dinner with friends at my favorite French restaurant because did I have a minute? I did. I plugged the strand into the other my dad handed me, he had covered two bushes and done the white […]

Windows

Horrible pink and gold in the Chanel windows right now. Very sad because “Chanel” is my favorite, probably because of the sound of the name, the same reason I like “Jameson,” truth be told. My therapist’s office is on the upper east side, one of the fanciest neighborhoods in America. My walk back to the […]

Chelsea, 19th Street.

“The gallery is upstairs,” she says. It was PSAT day, thus I had a moment to flit away from school and look about. I love the PSAT even more than I did when I took it and it led me to be offered lots of money for school which I was too young and foolish […]

The Surface

Instead of running screaming from the building, I went to supervise this study hall after school. Two kids helped another with algebra. I sat grading vocabulary quizzes while they sweetly talked through subtracting both sides of the equation and what you could do with variables, critical stuff. One of those kids had a deep accent, […]