I quit social media at the age of 17 – for four years. I didn’t have a presence on any platform. I was drawn to the sentiment that life is better when no one knows what you’re up to. “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily […]
I used to think of someone that was thirty as someone old. This, of course, was when I was about eight or nine years old. Why wouldn’t you, when they more than tripled my age back then? My own dad was 30 before I even turned ten, and as the years passed and I became […]
“There’s nowhere else you are supposed to be” ephemeral warmth humid sweat, “Feel a calm, cool the boil.” Move your hands, all over. Transcience is the moment, find the place, forget the sidewalk. Remember the sequence, file on, find comfort. Forget it, untangle your hair Feel recollective, warm up, skim the bottom, paddle up Discover […]
Today is my second daughter’s first birthday. When I dropped her off at daycare this morning the teachers had a sign and balloons and started singing Happy Birthday. Then Ms. Nadiyah came over to me and said, “Can you believe it! She’s one!”
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The thing no writer will say is their agent probably hasn’t called in six months. That they speak to their agent twice, maybe once, a year. That in reality, they’re terrified of their agent.
When you get a message like this, when someone showers you with their interpretation of your actions, it doesn’t just make you feel bad, it makes you question yourself.
She’s caught off guard. She doesn’t understand. She disagrees. She thinks I’m seeing things wrong. Either way, the conversation is being had. I am saying the things I need to get off my chest. She takes it surprisingly well, I think, after she hangs up. Five hours later a text arrives.