Today is September 7th. I woke up, made coffee, walked my dog and then vacuumed the house while listening to a slightly eclectic playlist inspired by Bruce Springsteen. I met friends for lunch and we had Ethiopian food, the highlight of which was inky coffee served alongside a smoking cone
*Hey did you know I also know all about astrology? It’s true, I’m stupid good. I started reading birth charts more than thirty years ago (!), and I’ve had wildly successful monthly columns (no really, it was insane). And yeah, you can be a Serious Writer™ and still
My grandmother Christine grew up during the Great Depression in the United States and used to tell us stories about waiting in line for bread and broken macaroni, and like most people who lived through that time and other such collective traumas, I don't think it ever left
On Nostalgia and Nasoni Sometime in the 1970s or 1980s, two distinct species of bright green parakeets escaped from aviaries in the center of Rome. Or perhaps, they were purposely released; no one has ever come forward with knowledge to clarify the event itself, making it an even better story.
The first time I came to Slovenia, I was a very different person than I am now. I was in my early twenties and traveling one summer, having my first taste of how large clusters of the world close in July and August. Growing up in New York meant (means)
In the early fall of 2002, I had recently returned to New York from Southeast Asia, where I had spent a year aiding and abetting a fugitive. I was, it is safe to say, mildly untethered. So I moved back to the Bronx, mostly because my brother lived there. He
Since humans began to move around on the planet, travel has always been a business. Whether it was providing lodging for passing shepherds, selling shards of supposedly holy wood to pilgrims, or cooking for soldiers on the sides of Roman roads, we’ve always understood that people with needs to
I don't remember how the group chat began and I prefer to keep it that way; the mysterious origins of love affairs and friendships lose their magic when we scroll back to the precise date and time of a thing. I can say that there are three of
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