Reading

I won’t be a snob about seasickness anymore. They told us we might get seasick while the boat was tied up. I only get seasick when I ride the Star Wars ride at Disney World more than two times in a row, so I figured I was fine. (For the record, I rode four times […]

Balthus

“If it’s creepy-dirty, that’s Balthus,” a friend said to me once. Balthus didn’t like bios, thought people didn’t need to know anything about him, that his work should speak for itself. It should. It does. So I wasted no time learning about him before I went to see his show at the Met. He also […]

Sub 1

For a person with claustrophobia, I really love the subway. I learned public transit on the subway here. First the green 6 up to the Met. I was pretty excited about that. Then the shuttle from Grand Central to Times Square, and the N up to my friend’s place by Columbus Circle. The subway always […]

Power

The burden of how I might feel on my birthday was gone. At the end of school, I put the flowers my dad and stepmom sent into my bag and walked to the uptown subway instead of the downtown. A girl with her own birthday balloon, in the shape of a giant cupcake, crossed a […]