At some point I became afraid of lakes. Not (I hope, obviously) in a general fashion, of their existence, but specifically of entering them. Oceans too. We could blame it on a few too many years of city living, but I like to think it is something more sacred. This isn’t fear, I tell myself, [...]
Hollah! Thanks Rob.
That summer, one of the exhibits at the sculpture garden was a palace of steel beams and translucent bead curtains. At night, they lit the beads from below so that the whole structure shimmered like costume jewelry. My mother’s theory was that the man I met there was married. That’s why he stopped calling. He [...]
The Fourth of July is wonderful, because it makes us all feel like children. Children who drink and endanger their lives with fire, but still, a variety of children — and everything is awe-inspiring, and everyone is invincible, and there are only board games and rice krispie bars and a pontoon ride around the lake [...]
I hadn’t had one in ages, but suddenly there I was on an airplane, trapped in a small space thousands of feet in the air, when it occurred to me that I should probably completely freak out over the situation. It was immediately one of the most overwhelming panic attacks I’d ever experienced — I [...]