Weightless

When I was eight, I decided to be an astronaut. I wrote to NASA. Wasn’t real mail exciting? They sent me a whole packet of information the way the shuttle worked from toilets to booster rockets. I devoured every word. Through my elementary school years, I was a great scientist. I mixed household substances to […]

Poetry

I remember phrases from childhood travels, not images or events. Glass-bottomed boat. Lion Country Safari. Circus Circus. The musicality of the words meant more to me than the actual experiences. All I remember about the glass-bottomed boat was my incredulousness. How could a boat have a glass bottom? I pictured a little motorboat with a […]

Where the Child Things Are

I wish Spike Jonze had invited me over to screen his new movie, and I would have said, “But what is this ABOUT?” I don’t think the film takes a stand for or against conventional narrative structure, which bothered me, but then again, there is a good blanket fort. Max, in the movie, makes a […]

Nothing Happened

I think from the first time I saw “Sesame Street,” I thought: I want to live in the city! I want to live with a lot of weird people and mismatch architecture and monsters! Get me out of here! I hated that the suburbs were clean and neat. There was no room for my anger […]