Today Is Your Wedding Day
Today is your wedding day, and it’s weird I’m not there. It’s weird because we were so close. Before we weren’t anymore. Sitting in Starbucks for hours until they locked their doors. Silly accents at a hole in the wall coffee shop in Hicksville. Car rides to Fire Island and listening to the Cranberries. Phone […]
The Other Brooklyn
Brooklyn is on fire right now. Neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Greenpoint and Park Slope and Bushwick are lighting up the map. Hit television shows shoot there. Personal narratives all over the Internet are featured there. Conversations about where to live are centered there. Real estate prices are sky high. Williamsburg may even be more costly than […]
Summers Now:It’s Complicated
If I were to make a Facebook relationship status with summer, it would have to state that “it’s complicated.” It’s funny, I’m writing about old summers in this nostalgia collection I’m working on, and the truth within those lines aims to capture a blissful ignorance that old summers doled out. Summer fun with an invisible […]
My Love Letter To Chvrches
I will sheepishly confess that I’m not one hundred percent sure how to write a music review; I don’t know what’s musically distinctive. Or what’s special or not special in regards to sound, instrumentation, or the nuances of style. Technicalities. Which is why this is not a review. This is a love letter. And it’s […]
A Day With Max
Two sesame seeds are lodged in Tom’s teeth as he eats his bagel on a bench in Union Square park. The cream cheese, which warmed in the sun, smears his lips and mingles with the sweat from his pores. It’s a humid Saturday in June, and Tom desperately needs a reprieve from work. His boss […]
Graduation For Parents
Pomp and Circumstance echoes throughout the stadium. Students pile onto the field in their caps and gowns. Getting ready to graduate. Getting ready to get out there. Some seem eager. Some seem bored. Some seem emotional. Lisa and Dave are in the stands, searching for Katie. They do not hold back tears. I can’t believe […]
Dimensions
You constantly make it impossible to make conversation Keep us comatose but audible And I like it, the farther I get out. — Brand New sensitivity pricks my skin like a mosquito who sucks my blood and leaves its mark. my core, my spirit; it’s rooted in fortitude; in its most primal state. it had […]
We Were Late To Our Own Lives
We were late to our own lives; we spent years floating, wandering, repressing. Melanie was never fond of public speaking, but on her wedding day, her delicate fingers that donned her eloquent French manicure, gripped the microphone, steady and sure. He told me he wanted to be with me when we were 16. We were […]
“Parallel Lives” and “To Look Back? To Not Look Back?”
Parallel Lives it’ so surreal you’re next to me here and now, in my past; run-of-the-mill convenient stores covered in lotto ads ethnic clusters amidst the weekend hustle blocks of brick, yards that are narrow orthodox synagogues en route to knapp street old haunts, preserved haunts forever etched in memory and where were you? it’s […]
The Beach Club
Her mother always laid out in the sun, always reminded us to apply our SPF 50s, always had cold water at the ready. The sand was hot. The sand was like stepping on fire. But we placed our reclining beach chairs along the smooth white surface, allowing the heat to hug our bodies until noon. […]