Category Archive: Scenes From a Break-Up

Life Lesson #7

Life Lesson #7

Thanksgivings! We’d sleep on the floor of your family’s Connecticut farm house on pieces of foam, heaps of blankets. We’d wake up to the little …

 

I Set Out One Night

I Set Out One Night

The rainy night I stumbled out of our apartment to get a cab to the nearest cheap hotel, I had forgotten what breaking up feels …

 

Life Lesson #6

Life Lesson #6

Something that became unexpectedly important was where I slept afterwards. A hotel room (smoking) with its paneled elevator, 3am, on the phone with my parents. …

 

Life Lesson #5

Life Lesson #5

Breaking up with someone throws your entire apology meter off. You’re perpetually sorry. You’re perpetually waiting to hear he’s sorry. And as the two of …

 

A Timeline For Leaving

A Timeline For Leaving

Four months ago I thought I’d rent a car and disappear into the night: pack my things and drug the cat and drive halfway across …