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[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”195″ ] I stood with my arms slightly lifted like a duckling. Mom tucked her hands under my armpits and raised me to the […]

February 28, 2011

We were well clothed, and, though sitting close to the fire, were far from too warm; yet these naked savages, though further off, were observed, […]

February 3, 2011

When my house cracks, the front room will be the first to fall off. Its western walls meet at an acute angle, and the room […]

December 17, 2010

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan once smoked cigarettes in the bathrooms at our high school. I imagine her seated on a toilet lid, hand cradling […]

November 2, 2010

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east…” And what time is it? I woke up with a wicked crick in […]

September 18, 2010

I was always afraid of Cubism. It wasn’t an I-just-don’t-get-it-and-that-scares-me kind of fear, but an I-just-don’t-get-it-yet-I’m-sure-that-if-I-did-it-would-make-me-afraid kind. I was afraid of its ugliness, of its […]

February 17, 2010

Today I woke up at 6 am to serve breakfast, wash the dishes, clean the dining room, and repeat the process — cook, serve, clean […]

November 2, 2009

Spotted. N wandering Soho solo in heels, and doesn’t even enter Balthazar?! What is this Queen-B wannabe searching for so eagerly? I admit. I am […]

September 18, 2009

The 32-bit generation of the Sega Genesis and the Super Nintendo is widely considered to be the pinnacle of gaming. But during that era, most […]

December 7, 2007

That space at the top of the door. I could hear everything that went on in that house in Surquillo, Lima, Peru through that gap […]

November 2, 2007

A birthday is returning to the launch site after a year away. We come in dusty, surprised to see ourselves in an old place again. […]

October 5, 2007