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What We Inherit

·Nov 4, 2022

On love, part 2

“Why are you choosing violence today?”, is a phrase I frequently sang-uttered to myself last winter. Sitting in the car, fingers ice cold, my father growling about something in the passenger seat, the traffic lights somehow even longer at 6.20AM. In the last months of his life, my father struggled…

Generational Trauma

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On love, part 2
On love, part 2
Generational Trauma

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Apr 13, 2020

Your new relationship with time

I have never, in my life, heard so much talk about washing dishes. When we could still roam free, the answer to “how was your day?” tended to be light on the details. Unless there was drama to unpack, a new idea to explore or a discovery to share, the…

Quarantine

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Your new relationship with time
Your new relationship with time
Quarantine

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Human Parts

·Jan 3, 2020

I’m the Only One in My Family Who Can’t See Ghosts

As the youngest in a family of witches, I interpret the world my own way — I call it “spook.” To get technical, spook is a sixth sense, but they don’t treat it with any kind of reverence. It’s not special. To hear them talk about it, spook is as unremarkable as a lazy eye or the state of your digestion. It’s just part of who…

Family

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I’m the Only One in My Family Who Can’t See Ghosts
I’m the Only One in My Family Who Can’t See Ghosts
Family

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What We Inherit

·Oct 20, 2019

On love

If you learn your first lessons about love from your parents, then my first lesson was that it was a burden. An unwieldy thing that someone was always asking you to carry, making as if it were a gift, one that you had not asked for, but that you had…

Family

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What I have learned about love
What I have learned about love
Family

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Oct 8, 2019

2019: The year I didn’t

To all appearances, I have had a busy but unremarkable year. The last nine months have rolled along like so many before. I delivered work on my accounts, spent two weeks wandering another country while contemplating time, space and my passage through it, ate nice dinners, took long walks, drank…

Life Lessons

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2019: The year I didn’t
2019: The year I didn’t
Life Lessons

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Jul 12, 2019

Longing

It was sparked in 1998. That spring, I backpacked around England, Ireland and Scotland with a friend and then took a connecting flight to Rome on my own. Previously, I had only visited Italy with my parents, as a family. And weeks before this trip, I had officially broken up…

Italy

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Longing
Longing
Italy

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What We Inherit

·Dec 30, 2018

On beauty

When I was a child, I didn’t understand that my mother was a beauty. I only saw her eyes, perpetually dark with fatigue, only heard her voice, tense, barking out my name. Every day, I felt her annoyance with me, her dissatisfaction with what I did, what I didn’t do. …

Short Story

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On beauty
On beauty
Short Story

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Nov 5, 2018

Bend, compromise, try not to break

A feeling slams into me every now and again. Usually when I am walking home from the office on a Friday evening, my arms and shoulders heavy with bags toting the week’s detritus of rinsed lunch containers, shoes, damp yoga clothes. notebooks. “Forever schlepping”, I think. No different than my…

Family

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Bend, compromise, try not to break
Bend, compromise, try not to break
Family

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Oct 4, 2018

Guilt

So that thing about Italian mothers and guilt is true. If you understand anything about Catholicism, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. When you are made to believe that your every move, your every word, is being recorded by an unseen power that will determine your fate, guilt is your…

Family

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Guilt
Guilt
Family

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Aug 28, 2018

Your name is a sign

My name, the syllables that I have known the longest, other than mama, speaks of my yearning every day. If nomen est omen — if the name is the sign — then my name is a tightly knit tapestry of who I am, what I love and where I come…

Ancestry

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Your name is a sign
Your name is a sign
Ancestry

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