“… see if they are still dying to come here and better the world?”

Why, in this age of super technology, do all those diplomats need to physically be here. taking up all the best parking spaces and the best tables at restaurants, adding to the non-English-speaking environment in the city? Why can’t they email their votes from their respective countries? Why should we have to deal with gridlock […]

“You heard me. Consenting acts of defecation…”

“Check this out - we’re at dinner.”
“Where?” Rose asked dutifully.
“Tangerine. Very nice. And we’re sitting there, and the lights are low, and the candles are flickering, and I haven’t spilled any couscous on myself, and he tells me why he broke up with his last girlfriend. Evidently he’d developed certain interests.”
“What interests?”
“Shit,” said Amy, with […]

“I sometimes longed for the coziness of a calendar locking grids…”

Sitting in my apartment in New York, I snapped out of my reverie, realizing how that he was right. Though I did get stressed out at school and I wasn’t going to whitewash those hard moments in gilded hindsight, I was nostalgic. Those times were stressful but always safe. A paper here, a quiz to […]