An English professor once told my short stories class that if you want to be a writer, it’s imperative you live in New York at least once in your life. I took his advice to heart and moved to New York not after graduation, but during it. Eight years later, I understand his advice in […]

Jay (my husband) and I got in a fight the other night. One of those fights where I think, This is it.  He’s going to leave me one day. With all that frustration and anger in his voice, how could he not?  It was one of those fights that comes out of nowhere.  The kind […]