Hair Peace

The weather has turned the city from welcoming to alien, the wind suddenly blew so cold, I set blankets against my windows and the north-facing wall. I spend Friday and Saturday fielding calls about the hows and whens of my move. A radiator in the apartment busted a gasket (I think literally?) and clouds of […]

Alarms

The smoke alarms were going off. This told me the super had installed them properly, which was a surprise. Two of them were going off, one beeping, and one was saying, “Fire…. Fire…. Fire….” I didn’t want to get up, and I thought, someone was cooking, and they’ll handle it. A crazy man drove […]

If

Merely reading about “If I Loved You,” why it is a powerful song, why it works, made me cry. Not even hearing it. I also cried at the Orlando airport, when I realized I should have said goodbye to my family before security, that we were at different terminals and I would not see them […]

Blue

I sat on my bed, cross legged, painting my wings blue. The wings are already blue, the section lines that make them butterfly wings, like stained glass panels, are black, and they must be black for me to be the Blue Fairy. The Blue Fairy shows up at Gepetto’s, where he is praying that the […]