Eugenides’ Middlesex is Not About Being Intersex

It’s about growing up in America.

A remembrance — Mom’s 100th Birthday

Betty Jane Swendiman Thorpe: December 27, 1918-June 22, 2003

Monsoon

Loy Vihar, room number sixteen. I woke up every morning listening to Vedic hymns and when the temple bells rang, they contained in them…

Yesterday, I Killed a Man

I'm not a murderer, let's set that straight.

No filters

Shh.

What is it that you hear?

Nothing?

Reality Dive — 4

Chapter 4: Like Cogs in a Clock

There’s an Old Song Called

“Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes,”
and I appreciate its unique title
and offbeat rhythm
and I can’t quite…

Who do I want to be?

I do not want to be my mother.

Metaphors

Our love is like the wintry afternoon, gentle and comforting,

CLEARLY NOW

I can see clearly now my life as it was before. I was an innocent.