I was browsing shows on a streaming service the other day when I came across a live stream of a chess championship between Alexi G. and Hikaru V. The announcer was Russian (I think), but the subtitles helped me to follow what was happening. Anyway, I surmised that Alexi was in a tight spot, based […]
There are currently two things on my bedside table: A copy of Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic article entitled The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans and Sunrise on the Reaping, the new Hunger Games prequel by Suzanne Collins. Yesterday, I watched two things: a live stream of the Cory Booker filibuster and the newest […]
I was lying in the grass listening to the birds, wishing I could decipher the lyrics of their song. It reminded me of the Slavic Goddess Gamayun, depicted with the body of a bird and the head of a woman, who lives on an island in Paradise. She can often be found perched in […]
A few years ago, I inadvertently opened an email that unleashed an insidious virus on my laptop. My screen immediately became a minefield of pop-up ads, hundreds of new windows opening and overlaying each other to fill the screen with flashing images and alarming beeps and pings. I could no longer see the important documents […]
All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24/7 baby machine So he can live out his picket-fence dreams It’s not an act of love if you make her You make me do […]
Been a rough couple of months – years – over here, the very ground beneath my feet shaking me into a new life. Everything that makes me me has been in transition, and we all know how hard change can be. I’ve felt wobbly, itchy, so joyful, and so bereft. If waking up was easy, […]
