Under Construction
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Boats, Dreams, and Privilege.
October 2025.
I am on my way to work, in a vehicle crossing the Third Mainland Bridge, thinking about a dissolved friendship as I stare out the window at the floating community I understand to be Makoko.
There are so many boats with kids...
A Psychiatrist Is the God of Our Age
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love and almost swear by Sylvia Plath, to the disapproval of friends who know how quickly her awkward romance with life was truncated by a stint in the oven. This is understandable. They see her life as...
Something Gives
I never count my chickens before they hatch. I’m quite religious about this. I don’t change my age until the clock strikes twelve. I don’t believe I will make it into a new year simply because I witnessed 23:59.
I do not think of myself as...
Breakfast for Dummies
In one of our earliest conversations, I told my friend Usi that I made a mistake by not getting my heart broken as a teenager.
This was true.
I had been an unlicensed relationship therapist for a number of years before this, and while I g...
Grey Matter - Fiction
You wonder why all the books you’ve read about dying have not exorcised you of the anxiety that precedes death. You’re not dying, not yet. But you imagine yourself walking off the edge, landing with a thud, a crash, a slap? A fractured...
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