Kaleidescope

This summer: my tooth, my friend’s dad, the Supreme Court, presidential immunity, my sister, my aunt, the former president, the president, the new presidential candidate, my lower back, my softening jawline. I’m going to spare you the verbs and the direct and indirect objects. I think you get it. I’ve been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s […]

pink carnations

All my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]

We May Sink and Settle

Someone told me even numbers of bamboo stalks are unlucky, so I bought another pot with three stalks, bringing my total to 9. I had 3, that was good, then 6, disaster, now back to 9. “What does that have to do with?”my coworker asked. I was carrying my bamboo. “I don’t know,” I said. […]

Get and Take

The woman was pleased that I was buying an umbrella. I had just splashed through Rockefeller Center, in three inches of rain, this made me laugh. Nothing was making me laugh at all, only actually wading in my sandals, running between the buildings there. “Once we sold almost every umbrella we had, to this whole […]