Yearly Archives: 2022

According to my oncologist, one in eight women gets this disease. More women get breast cancer than floss regularly. This makes my diagnosis somewhat run-of-the-mill, which is both reassuring and frightening.

This act – this doing – feels different. Like my whole adult life, we’ve been strangers visiting but today, today we are a dad and his daughter cleaning up a mess.

She set the book down on the table in front of Tabatha, next to her plate, a well-thumbed paperback with Mrs Dalloway in painted black writing inside a yellow border.

Compatibility Guaranteed! 1. How do you feel about sex during a woman’s period? a) It works for me. b) Natural birth control. Except for that once. c) Anyone...

As my mother says, it’s futile to try and keep clean on the mountain, what with all the dirt and dust, plus their two big dogs, and water so precious.

When Lisa saw Dan her heart throbbed so fiercely she almost toppled over and out of her chair. She hadn’t seen her former husband for nearly forty years and certainly wouldn’t expect him to be waiting here, like her, for a plane’s arrival

I don’t usually complain about my pain. I point it out, like pointing out a Volkswagen Thing or a building with Art Deco friezes. Unusual, but certainly nothing to pause life over.

There were so many days when I didn’t know what would happen because I could never trust when my monster would demand to be fed next.

The room smells of ugly memories and sweaty tension, like the waiting room of some therapist who can’t leave well enough alone.

“I don’t know what he talks about in there. He won’t let me go in with him,” my mom said to me once while...

We find a corner and you slip your hands inside my jacket, and I murmur in agreement when you invite me to a party at a vineyard.

Our neighbors were woefully missing those qualities. The next day, they started questioning which dog was the attacker, never mind that their dog was completely unharmed.