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Unmagical thinking 21 May 2013 | 04:58 am
I know people talk about the transformative power of grief, and I know that there’s supposed to be some alchemy whereby you internalize the person you lost so that he or she lives on inside you. You c...
In Which I Am a Drag 15 May 2013 | 12:12 am
“Drag” is actually a great word for it–everything I do seems weighted down, slow, exhausting. I think longingly all day about the moment I’ll get go to bed, and then when I get there I worry about the...
Initiation 1 May 2013 | 04:41 pm
My grandmother wasn’t part of my everyday life. We lived far away from each other, after all, and in recent years I did not call her as much as I used to. I used to talk to her at least once a week an...
Scraps 24 Apr 2013 | 05:05 pm
My wits are slow, and while I would love to produce a dazzling essay that would make my grandmother as vivid and wonderful to you as she was to me, I can’t do it yet. I do find it enormously comfortin...
Forgive me 24 Apr 2013 | 12:11 am
for being absent. My grandmother, to whom I have always been very close, died last week. In March I went down to see her for what I was fairly certain would be the last time, and it was wonderful to s...
Actual size 4 Apr 2013 | 03:39 pm
Once upon a time, there was a folded over leaf. Nothing remarkable, the kind of thing you might casually brush against as you walked by, or absent-mindedly fiddle with, or even unfold, if the straight...
AWOL 2 Apr 2013 | 09:09 pm
I’m so sorry. I have not been eaten by spiders or what have you. I did, in fact, have a wonderful time in Ecuador, and I have been meaning to write here ever since I got back. Then I left town suddenl...
Bird eating tarantulas, army ants, anacondas 5 Mar 2013 | 03:06 am
A couple of years ago my boyfriend and I signed up for a shared account on a credit card and proceeded to put every expense we possibly could on it. The idea was to cash in all the points every year o...
The Taxman Cometh 27 Feb 2013 | 04:05 pm
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of an onerous chore must be in want of a paid assistant. Or several. The summer my ex-husband and I separated, I hired a guy t...
The matters that matter 18 Feb 2013 | 09:15 pm
You commenters give awfully good advice. Yesterday I emailed my son’s piano teacher–she and her violinist husband are both self-employed–and she promptly handed over the name of an accountant who will...
