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Leap Day
Posted on February 29, 2016 Leave a Comment
Does everyone carry all of their memories around with them, like an airport teeming with stranded passengers during an unexpected blizzard on the night before Thanksgiving? Look, there’s thirteen year-old me, balancing The Heart is a Lonely Hunter on her knee, glancing up only to roll her eyes at 1977 Wonder Woman, about to board […]
Boots
Posted on January 22, 2016 2 Comments
The cool thing about the internet is that you can look up stuff like, “What day of the week was January 19, 1978?” It was a Thursday. On Thursday, January 19, 1978 (a school night), I slept over my best friend Lia’s house. The only reason this had been allowed was that a snowstorm was […]
I Want My Weather Channel
Posted on January 21, 2016 Leave a Comment
Does anyone else in the NYC area miss the Weather Channel with a profound unhappiness, or is it just me? It’s awful enough we have to weather this potential snowstorm (yes, I went there) minus El Bloombito’s crack Spanish admonitions, which I’ve only recently – begrudgingly, barely, really – accepted. His absence in the circus […]
Margherita
Posted on January 22, 2015 Leave a Comment
It began as a flirtation, with me gnawing on your crunchy outer rim like a firm ring of Saturn – not colorful or rocky, but solid, circular, celestial – to me, your attraction’s main event, really, before sliding seductively underneath your middle and becoming almost an afterthought of your taste. Meshed with the red of […]
Confidence is a Constant
Posted on June 25, 2014 2 Comments
When you’re feeling confident, you like to believe it’s for a reason, and not just a function of your own bias of self-preservation. The goal is to be self-assured in some kind of direct relationship with your actual worth and achievements, isn’t it? Anyone can think anything, you suppose, so when you wake up feeling […]
Squandering Stories
Posted on May 16, 2014 Leave a Comment
In third grade at Yantacaw School, we had a weekly timeslot reserved for show-and-tell – sometimes involving show-and-listen, where we were allowed the opportunity to share our favorite music with classmates – more like show-and-tell lite. I believe this is where I may have been exposed to the one-eyed, one-horned, flying Purple People Eater – […]
Hey, Nurses, Happy Special Needs Caregivers Day
Posted on May 2, 2014 Leave a Comment
The evolution of National Nurses Week (May 6, 2014 – May 12, 2014) and National Nurses Day, which will honor nurses this year on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, has been a well-deserved reward for the hard work and dedication of nurses in all areas of the profession. Doctors don’t need any recognition like this because […]
Wisdom
Posted on March 24, 2014 2 Comments
Le Terrace Club was a private pool where I spent a bunch of summers growing up. For those of you who are wondering, yes, it’s THAT Le Terrace Club. I mention the true name only because I’m not going to hide the fact that we were members, and it’s relevant to the extent that it […]
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose….
Posted on March 1, 2014 Leave a Comment
In high school, I took French because a. the Latin teacher had had enough of me by 10th grade and b. Dorothy Parker probably spoke French. She was interviewed for The Paris Review, so it was likely. And she worked for Vogue, which is, after all, a French word, n’est-il pas? Oh, and I liked […]
Girls with Journals: Why I’m Not a Real Writer
Posted on October 13, 2013 Leave a Comment
I always wanted to be the type of girl who kept a journal. Someone who wrote droll daily observations in a pretty, Paisley diary from Barnes and Noble, thinly-lined. Something a Jane Austen character would daintily clutch, while wearing some Georgian empire-waisted dress, cleverly sitting down in a sunny morning room to jot down flawlessly […]
A Girl by the Bridge 
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