May 14, 2019
When My Daughter and I Moved in with My Parents, Making Ice Cream Brought Us Together
Do other people ascribe “luck” to objects? I wondered. Wouldn’t it be far better to finally use this kitchen appliance and truly love it?
Do other people ascribe “luck” to objects? I wondered. Wouldn’t it be far better to finally use this kitchen appliance and truly love it?
I blamed my mother for so many things, but I blamed her especially for being a mere mortal when what I really needed was a supreme, supernaturally benevolent being.
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to overlook certain aspects of her appearance.
Of all the things that have come and gone in my life, I wanted this one thing, just one: to be a writer.
Wearing the catsuit and embodying Pfeiffer’s slinkiness as best I could in my awkward, skinny body, I understood for the first time that I could be a sexual being, not just a sexual object.
Disability is not wrong or tragic or bad, but sometimes it is a symptom of a grave injustice.
“Some memes may actually dissolve the original significance of iconic photographs and potentially degrade, rather than enhance, public culture.”
Sometimes I joke that I’m already primed for motherhood because I’m already well-versed in guilt, blaming myself for things over which I have little control.
How do I raise a child to love a world that may be dying, to live with compassion in the midst of what could very well be despair?
Bees do not attack—just as trauma survivors do not attack, but rather defend. She will not sting you unless she believes the colony’s life depends on her defense. Because when she stings you, she dies.
When Jack drew Rose like one of his French girls, he didn’t just sketch her; he saw her. It’s a level of intimacy that doesn’t need desire—but that doesn’t make it any less erotic.
In this small town of Laramie, what you say matters. It gets around. The only way to combat the misinformation is to keep telling the truth.
I told him clearly in that interview: “I am here because I’m afraid I will be killed in my country. I cannot return to Guatemala. I will die if I do.” The immigration officer acted like he did not understand.
No one else can judge your practice. You must believe in the work that is in front of you, taking shape before your eyes.
Unwritten social rules might as well not exist for me. The only reason I can read them at all is because I’ve forced myself to learn them.
New York is like their Miami resort.
I wanted to know more about my fertility because I thought it might help me prepare for a someday I wasn’t willing to give up on.
The New York Times, Harper’s Weekly and The Spectator sent stringers to cover the experiment. The writer from Harper’s was so impressed, he speculated “that the coming year would witness a grand exodus of the middle classes of England.”
I gravitate towards AIDS stories because, behind their righteous anger and torturous despair, they lay out visions of couples and communities.
I’d never seen a Korean man cook before Sam, and I was captivated.
