Alleys

VLADIMIR:You don’t remember any fact, any circumstance? ESTRAGON:(weary). Don’t torment me, Didi. I went to the bar and ordered wine. “Large or small?” the bartender said. I went with small. Then I got in line to bond with my fellow women, all of us praying for a moment alone with a toilet […]

Married

So I have married New York. Everyone says the first year of marriage is hard. I got an email about money trouble. I have had several such issues out here, not even having to do with my admittedly mediocre money management skills, all having to do with some merciless behemoth bureaucracy. In such an old […]

Scrub

This week I was interviewed by local media, visited the Museum of the American Indian, had my essays critiqued, prepared to travel to a meeting of a state agency in Albany with students, took other students ice skating, and chanted in four languages at two different, equally charming, churches. I’m thinking more about scrubbing the […]

Naptime

Our bodies are close to and around all these other bodies all the time, on the street, in stores the aisles are always one person wide, and especially on the subway. I say “excuse me” at least a dozen times a day. Everyone does. People here have an awareness of where their bodies. And a […]