I step into the hallway, bare feet touching cold tile. I try to ignore the cobwebs dangling in corners where the low ceilings and walls...

Mice no longer run in a panic looking over their furry shoulders, there is no need, the cats have died and no replacement has been made....

“It’s okay! I’m right here!” Lynn says. Her five-year-old daughter June whimpers. June has float wings on, but she keeps eyeing the...

I invited my neighbor Miss T. out to dinner for her 100th birthday. “Anyplace you want to go,” I said. Tiny and trim, surely under a...

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed. When it’s raining, we jump from Theodore’s bed to the folding chair, but it’s a long way and...

Today is both ordinary and singular, for it is a Saturday in August in the midst of a pandemic, and I’m alone in Vermont. When I say...

My cousin Jackie and I are five years old, standing on the shore of the Patuxent River, white sand under our bare feet, fine as ground...

On my 5th day of taking antidepressants I find out I have COVID. Or at least, I suspect I do. It is February 4th, 2021: I have moved out...

Next time I think it’s a good idea to go on a trip with BOTH my parents and ONLY both my parents, remind me that it’s not. I’m an adult...

It was 1972. Eighteen and newly a commuter student at Fordham University, a twenty minute walk from home, I walked the dark autumn...

When you leave, crossing a state and a mountain range, you think you’ll put enough distance between you and the people who raised you...

How do I know if I am lonely? If you keep your dorm door open because you made a quilt over break and are actually proud of it and you...

“What we desire travels with us. We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.” Denise Levertov I knew it was a possibility when the...

I live alone in quarantine, so I read, write, and binge-watch pandemic movies about people in quarantine. I watch animal videos on...

I've long given myself the moniker of Miscarriage McGee. I'm that girl in the room. We've all met them along the way, they're out there....

Does there come a day in every woman’s life when she decides, this is the time I’m going to take my underwear off? If there is, I’ve yet...

I returned to Plainview, Long Island, my hometown, for the funeral of my friend’s mother. I used to go to my old house often, to visit my...

Your mother to your father, “She lets boys touch her, but not us.” How can you explain? At 15 making your mother jealous is farthest from...

It is too early for me to be sitting at the bar when I see your name written on the wall. The sun is still out and I might consider this...

I’m born Norwegian, a new American, and soon to become an Israeli citizen, too. Who needs three passports when many people in the world...