HOW WE ARE.

One day, I was making websites and i was good at it until I came to class and then everything went haywire and now I look like a dork.

“It seems ridiculous,” I find myself saying to friends on an increasingly frequent basis. “I’m home, I’m doing school, conferences, and...

I find myself torn on how to spend my time. To-do lists help me structure my days. When I write things down I generally do them, even if...

Shelter in Place From the start I called the official order lockdown, quicker to remember and say, though my stepmother who uses...

On a gray and drizzly morning in mid-March, I was perched on an ugly desk in an even uglier classroom in a building nicknamed the “home...

“Can I have another one?” The middle-aged lady scuffs up in her sparkly flip flops for her second box lunch. She ends up with four every...

My husband banned me from social media today. Probably from the news too. To be fair, he can’t and wouldn’t really ban me from anything,...

Wells In Need of Filling How are you? is a question I avoid these days. Because I know that in the liminal space between that question...

Starstruck Our daughter urges us from the back seat to quickly “pick a spot.” We’ve been driving for 30 mins from our mid-town home, past...

I have never understood the butterfly’s mass appeal. Growing up, girls collected neon folders featuring big-eyed cats and dolphins and...

You asked me how I am doing months ago, and I didn’t reply. Not replying was easier than having to struggle with the words to explain the...

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In some ways my life hasn’t changed. I still get up and come down to my home office hoping to conjure up scenarios that hold the truth of...

2020 & My Writing “This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of...

I’m fine, as long as the birds keep coming. Mostly it’s small finches with yellow or red heads. Pine Siskins, too. They have yellow...

In my house are two adults, four boys and one dog, but only the dog seems stable right now. The rest of us are on the verge of crisis....

It was a hot July night. Carloads of 14-year-olds were being dropped off at the gates. For many, Billie Eilish was their first concert....

Dear Dad, How would you describe this pandemic time? To me it feels like a string of secret hours, the sort that sometimes feel delicious...

How Am I for How We Are. Energized with purpose. I hadn’t felt like painting/exploring since end of 2019 so I figured I would just start...

I’m terrified of death. I’m lucky never to have courted it. Just the opposite: This pandemic has made me appreciate my life more than...