Below

I turned thirty-nine and I went to the September 11th Museum, these two things were somewhat connected, not really, a little. I was looking back at photos of the mansion and the parties, and I think, did all that happen? I had this sort of perfect life, not the one I thought I wanted, but, […]

Wing

The little muscles through my elbow, because I pulled my arms down so hard, with all the books I had to keep, my arms had been pulled down too hard, over and over. in the morning I woke up in a white bed and my forearm felt red as meat, and it did not get […]

The Task at Hand

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller. I set this rule for myself: if I took a task out of the box, I had to do it. There was only one I failed […]

Strangers

I took a subway I don’t normally take, my friend who dropped me off at the station had asked me if I was okay, and I was as always touched by the suggestion by a man that I would not be all right, as I always expected myself to keep myself all right almost all the […]