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On Order & Restraint
It was easy to love London. If not for the rain, if not for the food, then for its very particular brand of restrained orderliness. I first discovered the Jubilee Line during rush hour. It was here that I understood British orderliness to be a form of cultural superpower, the epicenter of which seems to…
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Reflections
Hello readers! This week I invite you to check out a piece I wrote for Cambridge’s Varsity newspaper. This blog will be back with more writing in early December. Thanks for reading! Full link below: https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/16594
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Approximately 24 Questions
Are you cold? Would you like my jacket? Do your feet hurt? In fact, does being so beautiful hurt? Meaning, how painful is it to be so in love? Did the path to love bleed? Do you love life wrapped around a tape measure? Who are you smiling at? What did it take to love…
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Refractions of An Old/New World
You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. – Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Photo: Valk Fisher In my few days in the city, I had discovered a new favorite place for breakfast, to which I became instantly loyal. It was $5.56 for…
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Things I Don’t Want to Know
I didn’t know how to join these thoughts up and there was still a part of me that did not want to spend another second of my life thinking (again) about all of this stuff. – Deborah Levy, “Things I Don’t Want to Know” In my mind there are a dozen opening thoughts. I’m…
