“…Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to
me!
On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are
more curious to me than you suppose,
And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and
more in my meditations, than you might suppose…
It is [...]

When I first moved into this sleepy apartment on a tree-lined street, I was a binge-drinking project manager; I abandoned one significant relationship in pursuit of another — a bottle of red wine. The drink blurs and numbs, tells you to not make waves, not splash your way through the water. Angry and confused, [...]

I’ve been giving this a considerable amount of thought lately — writing about what you want, what you love, what delivers you shelter. For the past year I’ve been blocked every time I’ve come to the page, thinking about the novel my agent wants me to write, the second book I should be publishing. [...]

Sometimes I go back, one year in ten, trying to find the woman I used to know. It’s odd to think of an amusement park being more than what it is – a fantastic, strange diversion. A house of horrors, a face contorted, a roller coaster that steals breath. But this place was once [...]

We didn’t hear you coming. You’ve gone and done it again. Found us with the wires. We’re the tangled, ruinous kind, prone to electrocutions and surges of despair. The harvest left us ravaged, our hearts slouched out to pasture. We’re old-timers, card-players, retired. Crazy eights, sloe gin slur, and the like. We spent our lives [...]

There is the spiral of grey curls and the face scrubbed free of makeup. There are signs of age creeping quietly, spidering up through the face, a constant reminder of time passing. Of a body in chrysalis. A reminder that there was a moment I felt naive and fearless, when the road ahead was [...]