“You need to have something called F**k You Money.” I’ll never forget the first time I heard these words. I was in a classroom, away at boarding school, and 16 years old. My teacher, a middle-aged man who had spent his life as a working actor, was truly trying to teach us about the real […]
I don’t know where I stumbled across this but somewhere in my arsenal of Google docs and Microsoft Word drafts I found it copy and pasted. I’ve tried to find out more about who said it, where it came from, how it came about, but unfortunately, it’s just one of those ‘in the void’ type […]
I am chasing her my ghosty soul propelled by fireworks frantic seeking her friends I will not fall behind How do she and I express our joy if our faces are incapable my silhouette ripples away – it’s too much, I can’t blink a yes smile, clutched to my cheeks real feet plant heavily on […]
We all have a life long changing relationship with food. As a child, I was a fussy eater. For a while my staple diet consisted of Nutella sandwiches and grilled cheese. My parents battled with me at the dinner table for hours every night as I attempted to conceal food in napkins and feed the dog […]
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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