Yearly Archives: 2024

Screen Time

It was an impossibility to log into every device, block every website, remember every passcode, and so he was defeated, day after day, by screen time.

Mirror Mirror

Once in the car, I searched for greys in the rearview mirror. Had I missed a hair color appointment? Did I forget to put concealer under my eyes?

Heaven Has FaceTime

"I know she would love to FaceTime with you, but she’s too out of it now. Why don’t we try again at nine in the morning?"

A Certain Slant of Light

In an apartment that is mine as long as I can rent it, for the length of time that developers are held back, there is little sense of permanence.

Struggling Through Junior High

Our final project in junior high sewing class was to make a swimsuit cover-up. We bought the pattern after I said that I wanted a terry cloth robe.

The Numbers of Us

In addition to the many cards Stevie wrote to my mother over the years, we also found the letter in which he told her that he had been diagnosed with ARC (Aids-related complex) back in 1985.

The Child Is Me

I worry I’m in the wrong place. I know I have some low-grade childhood trauma, but what does that have to do with my very confusing affair? 

A Place to Return

Thirty years ago, when my parents moved to Syracuse, they planned to stay only a few years, until my father retired.

Born Again Atheist

It was six weeks at least before my body made up the deficit, from barely enough red blood cells to a normal level, weeks when I was cold all the time.

What Trans Kids (Like Me) Need To Survive A Trump Presidency

I usually write advice columns…but like most trans youth in the so-called US, and especially in the Midwest, I’m truly freaking out.

Danger

That road is our patched path, on either side, the woods hang over – green with life and vibrant, but dark and impenetrable.

I’m Sorry I’m White and You’re Brown

“I wish you guys had brown skin.” As you told me this, we cuddled on the living room couch, the teak couch with the green-and-white-striped cushions.
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