Kali Yuga: Using Chaos to Rebuild

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 […]

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Tell It Like It Is: Female Authors on the Pain of Motherhood

Motherhood. The word sails through my mind at random yet with increasing persistence. Maybe because I’m getting closer to that age. Maybe because it’s around me more. Maybe because this is how it happens. A word enters the brain, slowly, over time, becoming a thought, that thought then nestling into the body, unconsciously or consciously […]

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Something I’ve Been Avoiding: Goodbye New York

What’s happened since the last time we spoke? I had my first full week back at work. I went to the gym twice (Monday & Wednesday). Ate six Reese’s Christmas trees. Drank about twelve cups of green tea and saw a movie (Uncut Gems – good but intense, and I was in a Little Women […]

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