Exfoliation
General/Column August 24, 2020
I have been learning the differencebetween sorrow and despair,discussing subtleties with my dog.She’ll be beside me today,Mother’s Day, for a fourth…
When I Tell Strangers I Have Twins
General/Column August 24, 2020
They sigh, shake their heads, say, “I don’t think I could do it.” I wonder which one they’d sell, as though twins …
Ventricular Septal Defect
General/Column August 24, 2020
At twenty weeks, the doctors gavean ultrasound that discovered a tiny hole in the baby’s heart. “Small,” he said. “May close…
Someday You’ll Love Yourself
General/Column August 24, 2020
—after Ocean Vuong Maybe it will happen during a pandemicwhen, resources exhausted,you lock yourself in the bathroomas your children squall….