12:09 p.m. I’m late.  I walk into the casting and ask for Candace.  She steps out from the back wearing a yellow lace mini-dress and black blazer and black boots that remind me of [...]

It rains all day.  Not in manageable sprinkles but in impossible, regular torrents.  We walk around Woodstock, which is really just a winding main street flanked by old buildings f[...]

The terminal is familiar but I don’t recognize the name of the airline I am supposed to fly on. Something terrifying and anonymous. Sun Country Air, I believe. I spoke to my mom la[...]

I wake up from a nap even though I should just sleep until morning.  It’s only seven.  I’ve left my bike at the Bedford stop for sixteen hours too long and I need to retrieve it be[...]

I leave a party early.  I didn’t drink.  I didn’t smoke cigarettes out on a balcony hanging over Canal Street.  Music played but I didn’t dance.  Nobody danced.  The best conversat[...]

I wake up to the sound of thunder, rain against my dirty windows.  Lightning cracks somewhere far off; the telling beats too many counted seconds away to be close. One…two…three…fo[...]

AZZ EVERYWHERE!  AZZ!  AZZ!  EVERYWHERE! In front of us, on a stage flanked by dusty marigold curtains, a sweaty black man with relaxed hair and a red flannel shirt raps in front o[...]

These near-summer nights are like heaven to me.  A warm blanket for my frozen hands.  A good book for my silly brain.  Each week I shed a new layer, finding more of myself beneath.[...]

I want to come see you…is that terribly silly? I was an emotional masochist.  I did things I knew would only end up hurting me, but I felt compelled to do them anyway.  Something t[...]

My street waited to be charming again.  It was April and I could see it in the buds that formed at the ends of branches, in the park covered in grass and not snow.  Change was so s[...]