HOW WE ARE.

I feel like I live in a bubble flying through the landscape of springtime. My favorite flowering trees around the neighborhood are in...

It’s Spring inside quarantine and I am holed up in the downstairs apartment trying to make like a happy hobbit, writing at a desk set...

I haven’t cried this whole time, and now... Not a gulpy-gulp pity cry, just that under-the-skin, seepy-out kind. I think it has something...

How am I? I usually try to answer this common question quasi-honestly; if I feel good, I say so. If I’m tired but in the process of...

Animal Gestures I’m grateful for my neighbor Julianne. We talk outside at a distance every day. But our first greeting is in the morning...

5/13/2020 I feel disoriented scrolling through Trulia apartment listings for a city on the other side of the country while hardly having...

What am I doing with my life? Why has my left ear been hurting? How do I tell Ahmed that he is getting a C in our class because he never...

Stay at home. Work from home. Per our governor’s and college system’s instructions, I have been at home for the past two months. Except...

For weeks the sound of sirens rushing to meet the sick and the dead went unabbreviated in our neighborhood, and just two days ago we...

I am living one life in two worlds. I have just finished my 25th (or was it 35th?) email of the day that included some version of the...

"See How We Are” is one of my favorite songs by my all-time favorite band X. I was looking forward to seeing them at the Palace Theater...

So, there I was with an ice cube in my hand laughing and laughing. I was pregnant with my first child and I excited to do the all-natural...

How am I? I am an egg about to hatch, or perhaps to crack, spilled onto burning asphalt that makes me something new, etched into earth, a...

How am I? Today? Amazed and joyful. My son turned 21! We’re not going to the cocktail bar and then out for music as originally planned....

I have a prism in the window of my living room that refracts sunlight into rainbows that then filter across the room, and while I’m...

How am I in these days of pandemic panic and lockdown ennui? I’m not OK, but I’m OK. Let me explain. In another couple of days it will...

Chelsey and I are struggling with texts. We’re used to seeing each other every week, and as the virus continues to keep us apart, we’re...

This morning I managed to get out of bed and make it to my meditation cushion. Feeling my belly a bellows. I always sit afterwards and...