The Long and Short of It
Laura HurwitzThe forest, tree by tree.
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The haunted mall
Last week, on a trip to the Connecticut shoreline, Sam and I decided to check out the outlet mall we used to go with the kids. We’d bypass the fancy mall in favor of this humble one to buy discount underwear at Jockey or Hanes, and then hit...
For Jake on his birthday
curled under the same star wars sleeping bag,
you have dreamed of ninja turtles,
and lay hungover on the couch.
you ride the cisco surf into
bathtime into bedtime stories,
throwing dingo tennis balls
from the sydney opera house stage....
14 things based on direct personal experience I might reasonably inquire of my host before renting a house on Airbnb.
1. Will you be spending the entirety of our Airbnb stay smoking weed in a van parked in the driveway?
2. Would the comforter on the bed be made from the pelt of a bear you skinned yourself?
3. Is your home adjacent to a fuel storage ta...
A.I.
we live in a different torch
than the one i was raised in.
that wall over there used to be a door.
the lamp’s gone out, but it seems
we can’t burn up fast enough.
words we have belabored, scraped slop.
still. to write is to love the p...
Second Chance
When I was a young mother to one, then two, then five, then six kids, my days were a to-do list. Everything I did was a set-up for what followed. I developed into a multi-tasker, which, like juggling, required timing and skill rather than e...
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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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