HOW WE ARE.

I survived a long bout with a severe illness in 2016/17, so most things feel like a cakewalk in comparison. These past couple months I...

Today my nephew is one month old. My sister-in-law holds little Isaac Blue up to the speakerphone and he coos. My husband laughs. “Do you...

Love is life ~ All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love ~ Everything is, everything exists, only because I love ~ ~...

There are over 350 species of lovegrass (most of which feature, according to my Encyclopædia Britannica, “characteristic glands on the...

I spent yesterday calling the new clinic. They input my gender and name wrong despite the paperwork I filled out. They wrote my estrogen...

Moving and Staying Put If you’re out in the middle of the night, just look like you have somewhere important to go. Invoke the image of...

To Whom It May Concern - I am not well. Today it’s mostly because my neighbor across the alley had a small fleet of trucks block our...

Oh, I’m doing okay, which is what people say when they aren’t doing very okay—mainly it’s a fatigue that’s been clinging to me, keeping...

Some days, the dog is doing better and some days she’s not. Some days, I enthusiastically roll out my yoga mat on my living room floor,...

How am I? The answer depends on how close I am to chrome. As a pole dancer, the world feels better if I’m the one making it spin. When I...

Welcome to my day 66 of social distancing As you are we were. As we are you will never be I’ll burn in the flame of the prayer candle...

How am I? Well, I guess I am guilty. I am guilty of wanting to rubberstamp my reply with the usual “Fine” or “Okay.” I am guilty of...

Dear Matt Batt, Thanks for asking. To be frank, I'm the opposite of bored. I finished my junior year just yesterday around 4:30, and I'm...

I’m in stasis. It began for me in December when my father died. The family was with him when he passed away, and we had a lovely...

In some states, cutting grass is essential. I learn this by cutting grass. It’s a new job, “a uniform job” as one of my family members...

The ding of a text message notifies me of a third text this morning asking the same question, “How are you?” It’s my friend from...

I lost track of what day it is, but I keep sane by listening to songs that remind me to dance, to keep breathing. It was my resolution to...

My best friend/freshman year roommate/platonic soulmate Sam and I’s favorite pastime is philosophically deconstructing social norms. Our...

Each morning now, my husband Dominik and I ask each other how we are doing instead of saying good morning. Our answers range from “pretty...