Dear W________

Why un-writing matters

Dear W_________,

On memory

Dear W_______

Sometimes, I worry about the way I remember things.

On fear

Dear W_________

Two days have passed and I’ve been indoors. I’ve cried my eyes out, slept, woke up feeling tired. As I…

On grief in America

Dear ____________

These days, everyone is talking about violence. Since the shootings in Orlando…

On small towns

Dear W_________

Forgive my long silence.

On hotels

Dear W_______

As I write this, I am sitting on a neatly arranged kingsize bed; white cotton sheets, fluffy white…

On otherness

Dear_______

Otherness is an odd feeling. When I went house hunting in my first month in Washington, the…

On warmth

Dear __________

The cold is setting in. Every day, when I walk to work, I watch people in long coats, boots and colourful woolen caps rush to the metro.

For Christmas, D gifted me a Canadian Goose jacket with fur around the hood. “This,” he declared, when I…