Arch RFree therapy“No, I mean it! No sex for a month,” I announce to my therapist. She is the fifth one I have cycled through in just as many months. My work…Feb 19Feb 19
Arch RinBe YourselfThe questions you don’t have to answerYear-end. The world is warm with festivity even as the winter chills blow through the northern hemisphere. Everyone is hopelessly jubilant…Dec 26, 2021Dec 26, 2021
Arch RinBe YourselfOpen letter to my 18-year-old selfYou have imagined yourself sometimes, away from this whitewashed North Carolina suburb, on a grimy New York Street, yellow cabs parting the…Dec 10, 20214Dec 10, 20214
Arch RBlack Friday ShoppingThe stuff. The piles and piles of stuff. Six black t-shirts that fit ever so slightly different than the next. One goes with high-waisted…Nov 30, 2021Nov 30, 2021
Arch RinBe YourselfDo opposites attract?It’s not that I believe opposites attract; it’s just that I think two people who are too similar are flammable. I can write the witness…Nov 27, 2021Nov 27, 2021
Arch RAfter “I Quit”The foghorn bled into the air with its monotonous blare. The ships sat motionless in the water, or so it seemed from a great distance, like…Nov 26, 2021Nov 26, 2021
Arch RMirror ConversationsHey you, yes you, the one in the mirror, yes, I’m talking to you. We’ve despised each other for so long. We need to sort this out. I know…Oct 29, 2021Oct 29, 2021
Arch RThe Metamorphosis of EnvyI am not sure if envy is green. I see it more as a dull beige, the unexciting color that will never stand up for itself but carry other…Sep 14, 2021Sep 14, 2021
Arch RSomewhere in betweenIt was a sweltering morning like many, where my iced latte was the reprieve from the overbearing equatorial sun making its appearance…Aug 23, 2021Aug 23, 2021
Arch RinBe YourselfAnti-prodigal daughterI’ve left home. I am now six thousand miles away from my parent’s grasp. My parents and their overbearing love which felt less like a…May 30, 2021May 30, 2021