When I was six months old, my mother dropped me off at grandmother’s apartment and left. But grandmother didn’t have a crib for me. She found an abandoned refrigerator shelf
Elsa considered the need to search for a wig, maybe become a blonde, but decided, no, to stick to her natural color, although at this point, it was difficult to
I climbed, or more exactly, drove up the hill. Over the last seven years, developers had transformed Campus Drive from a weed patch leading to Merritt College, into a row
I spent my life married to an assortment of alcoholics, musicians and mental patients who made interesting, but unreliable mates. Clearly, I wasn’t getting younger and like the Fifth Element
In that moment, I knew what to do—sat in front of my computer exactly twenty-four hours before my flight was scheduled, got ready to enter my booking number, and pressed
When I’m in a Walt Whitman state of mind I want to hug every new mother I see wheeling a sleeping infant in a stroller, a boy on a skateboard