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high schoolers on train platforms
There’s something about a train platform full of high school students. It is something magical, something tragic. Something buoyant with potentiality spills out of hoodies and frantic...
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Strangers on the MTA
We switch to the D train at 36th. The train is packed, so I stand, holding the stroller wheels in place with my feet, one hand on the handle, the other on the pole. C hangs out in his seat. He wants to...
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Life as a rogue asteroid
It’s okay. We don’t have to talk. It’s been a rough week, and it’s only almost Thursday. I feel a little eaten up by the world this week, by my little corner of the city, by my new computer that will...
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date with a bike
I took my kid’s bike to a Broadway show last night. I’d dropped him off at school that morning; he rode his little balance bike the whole way there. Then I grabbed the train and went to work, fully...
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The nature of the things we do
I’m heading off to work this morning. Standing on the subway platform among my fellow commuters, fellow travels, I feel isolated. I know we all do. I feel the day spread out before me in a hazy...
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Overheard in Brooklyn
On Remsen Street: A thin kid in a St Francis College sweatshirt and some low-slung skinny jeans approaches an older, professional lady. She doesn’t see him at first, she’s having a heated convo on the...
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R train blues con’t
I’d switched from the R local to the N express and was waiting for the R again. It probably would have been faster to walk home from the express stop than wait for the local, but I’d already put in 5...
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Trigger warnings
We started to watch Game of Thrones. There was an impending feeling of doom and violence. Within the first ten minutes something awful happened, or was about to happen, I don’t remember. It was...
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It’s dangerous being alive: quick thoughts
It’s dangerous being alive. Anything could happen and there’s no way to know what that might be. I want to stay up all night but I need to wake up early. The people who sit on two subways seats by...
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high schoolers on train platforms
There’s something about a train platform full of high school students. It is something magical, something tragic. Something buoyant with potentiality spills out of hoodies and frantic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Strangers on the MTA
We switch to the D train at 36th. The train is packed, so I stand, holding the stroller wheels in place with my feet, one hand on the handle, the other on the pole. C hangs out in his seat. He wants to...
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The nature of the things we do
I’m heading off to work this morning. Standing on the subway platform among my fellow commuters, fellow travels, I feel isolated. I know we all do. I feel the day spread out before me in a hazy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s dangerous being alive: quick thoughts
It’s dangerous being alive. Anything could happen and there’s no way to know what that might be. I want to stay up all night but I need to wake up early. The people who sit on two subways seats by...
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