My Mother-in-Law’s Murder

It was 1976, and I was 21 years old and newly married after a whirlwind courtship that lasted less than three…

A Night at The Opera

Once I went to the opera with a woman that I loved.

Cinema and The Coming Civil War of Nazi Passive Aggression

Touch Starved

Two weeks in a new town 
and I’m starved…

Shoe Horned

I rolled out from under my newspapers and cardboard tent thinking maybe today I could paint the changes into my life that I’d been dreaming of for the past fifteen years. I saw it all in my mind, but that’s about as far as it went. Under a little ray of sunlight that shone down into the alley I called…

I Didn’t Catch Your Name

A story told to me by my husband

like this.

I know now why queens want to eat a whole heart.

For Ben

The fastest I’ve ever made anyone cry was the time I told my mother Ben was dead.

Running Amongst the Little Boxes

re: getting bitten in the butt while running in Sunnyvale, California

External Affairs — Book IV — Chapter 1

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