People You Know By Heart

—DO YOU EVEN HEAR YOURSELF?     …The truth is, those lyrics were nothing special, but they got to me anyway.   …The truth is, those pop-up a...

    —I’M KEEPING IT CLOSE TO THE SURFACE BUT THAT’S NOT REALLY MAKING IT HURT LESS       OPEN WATER  /  Caleb Azumah Nelson       You were w...

  —IT MUST BE DIFFICULT TO LET GO OF SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL     THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING / Joan Didion     Clearly I am not the ideal te...

—A HARD RAIN’S GONNA FALL       OPEN WATER  /  Caleb Azumah Nelson     You would soon learn that love made you worry, but it also made you b...

  —THERE COMES A TIDE     Dear John,            I thought of you this morning (no surprise there) when several of the wait staff stumbled lo...

    —ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?       Prick     This morning a prick  of primitive dread  overtakes joy &  the florid sunrise &  the brass i...

  —MONDAY YOU CAN FALL APART, TUESDAY I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU     BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU / SALLY ROONEY     Sometime when I get reall...