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I was thinking about what is hardest to write, and I ranked the various things I write from easiest to hardest: essays, stories, poems. In terms of word count, poems are definitely the hardest and most time-consuming. Yesterday, I spent … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, there were stores. From my apartment in Boston, I could walk to two grocery stores. Granted, they were a Whole Foods and a Trader Joe’s, so it felt like living in a posher, more expensive area … Continue reading →

In the last few months, I’ve written three stories. Two were stories I was asked to write. One is a retelling of “Sleeping Beauty” from the ogress’s perspective. (You don’t remember an ogress in “Sleeping Beauty”? Read the Charles Perrault … Continue reading →

I think life is a process of collecting scars. Mine are inconsequential, all things considered. The oldest ones are the marks from immunizations: smallpox on one arm, tuberculosis on the other. If you were born in the United States, you … Continue reading →

I was sent home from the hospital with three bottles of pills: oxycodone, ibuprofen, and acetaminophen. They were white pills in orange plastic bottles, very much hospitals pills: uncoated, difficult to swallow. I only took a few of them. I … Continue reading →

My thyroid and I got along very well for a long time. We had a good relationship — I lived my life, and it provided me with the hormones I needed. There was that incident about twenty years ago, when … Continue reading →

I’m trying to make a space for writing again. I’m writing this in my official writing room, or at least what is supposed to be my official writing room. During Christmas it was my daughter’s bedroom, but now the daybed … Continue reading →