The Long and Short of It
Laura HurwitzThe forest, tree by tree.
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Sleep Requirements
In Steve Martin’s “The Jerk,” protagonist Navin Johnson, played by Martin, wants to prove to his love, Marie, played by Bernadette Peters, that he doesn’t value the spoils of his newfound wealth more than he values her. He will leave his ma...
Sam, in a nutshell
Sam and I went to look at a house in Fairfield, Connecticut- a fancier town than Hamden, where we live. The listing agent, a gladhanded prepster named Chris, was trying to determine our status through casual but pointed conversational tidbi...
Micah
from the moment you were born
we held you in cupped hands;
an improbable polliwog
from a mysterious spring.
despite doting
you metamorphosed into maturity
to parallel-park your car on brooklyn streets
and fall in love.
for you, as p...
Perfect Allegory
Political allegory has a long history. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” depicts how political ignorance blinds people to the true nature of reality and justice. Orwell’s Animal Farm traced the ominous rise of Stalinism.
I recently disco...
Out to Sea
It’s taken me an absurd amount of time to properly process and frame my response to the Fourth of July, spent on Nantucket, where semiquincentennial pride was front and center. Adhering to tradition in red, white and blue, little girls were...
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I'm a novelist, essayist, poet, and human lady. Mama to six, nana to four. I see significance in random things. It's a problem. Writing helps.
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