Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. by Chelsea Handler 8 min on the F train into Manhattan The visits with Genevieve and the baby were getting awkward. Brenda knew her friend thought she was a prude; Genevieve thought all Americans were uptight about their naked bodies. But Brenda had Read more…
All That Glitters by Pearl Lowe 8 min on the set of “Rookie Blue”, 1.18.13 Every night you told me a different fairy tale. You said they were true stories and I should never give up on my dreams. Everyone gets a happy ending. I remember my tenth birthday when we Read more…
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 8 min @ Mercury Espresso, 1.17.13 My mother refused to marry my father even though that was the thing to do. It was hard to be a single, unwed mother in the forties. But she always said why marry the dog that did her wrong? Read more…
Hope on a Tightrope by Cornel West 8 min on the bed, 1.15.13 It’s not her fault. She had to share everything until she could provide it for herself. There wasn’t one thing she ever had new before the age of nine. There were eight of them and she Read more…
The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman 8 min in bed, 1.14.13 It is one o’clock in the morning and I am wide awake. I am seven years old and I cannot sleep. I am a very new seven because my birthday was just three weeks ago, but someone once told my Read more…
Astray by Emma Donaghue 8 min @ Hub Coffeehouse, 1.11.13 Why didn’t she remember that she hated musicals? Well technically Pip didn’t hate musicals anymore, and there was so much hype around the film. Dom like everyone else wanted to check out the pomp and pageantry, but this was that one. Read more…
muttered to myself @ the traffic light, Bathurst and College, TO composed in the car, northbound on Bathurst, 1.11.13, 11:30am He’s making his way into the bus shelter because clearly he should not get all those bandages wet. His head is a checkerboard of white band aids and scalp. A Read more…
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 8 min @ my desk, TO I said I would be your forever friend and I meant it. But I didn’t realize you’d go bat shit crazy. — No, I don’t think I’m the culprit. Because you didn’t uphold your end of the friendship Read more…