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
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
Casanova by Ian Kelly 8 min. 12.11.12 @ Sense Appeal, 96 Spadina Hot sweats. That’s what she calls them because that’s what they are. She was never prone to sweating. It wasn’t a question of physical exertion; despite being active she was never one to have pit stains. But now Read more
Casanova by Ian Kelly 8 min. 12.11.12 @ Sense Appeal, 96 Spadina Hot sweats. That’s what she calls them because that’s what they are. She was never prone to sweating. It wasn’t a question of physical exertion; despite being active she was never one to have pit stains. But now Read more
Passion & Power edited by Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons 8 min 12.10.12 @ Sublime Espresso Bar I’m a miracle baby. The chances that I should even be here on the planet are like one in a hundred thousand. Maybe more, math isn’t my forte. But I’m supposed to be Read more
8 min @ The Hub, 12.3.12 She is poised perfectly on her two razor sharp sitting bones, mythically long legs crossed twice with ankles collapsed horizontally on the floor. She is a 3D composite of angles and planes, light and shadow. She pinches off tiny crumbs of muffin and feeds Read more
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas 8 min in The Monk’s Room, LES/NYC She’s stood me up so many times. But today is different, I’m older and wiser. Therapy helped me understand so much. I’m not angry any more about things in the past. I’m living in the Read more