Category Archives: Personal

If you have no feelings, you don’t wince when you carve up people. You’re as cold as ice. You’re a surgeon. Your job is to cut people up. Sometimes you heal them and sometimes you kill them (even the best … Continue reading →

So my writing teacher asked me how did I know that I had low social status in Jewish life. I met Bella* at a Shabbat dinner in March of 1998. It was set up by **** but was at the … Continue reading →

So I was at Starbucks and the 18yo poet sat on the other side of the store. Both of our mothers died of cancer. Both of us like to do our own thing. Both of us go one way and … Continue reading →

I don’t want to go to bed with Rachel and wake up with Leah. I want someone who does not repulse me when I wake up in the morning and see her without make-up. I don’t want to have to … Continue reading →

Love for me has primarily meant romantic love. Sexual love. Agape love is great in real life but it is not the stuff of fantasy. So love for me has primarily been a fantasy rather than a reality, an aching … Continue reading →