Several years ago — seven years actually, nearly to the day — I was sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn, observing two young women in conversation, and I wrote the entire experience down in detail. I wasn’t so much interested in the conversation the women were having, but the way in which they were [...]
There’s something wonderful about being sick, too sick to do anything but lie in bed. An abdication of responsibility, a giving over of oneself to the constraints of the body — something we don’t normally do, because it’s not often we push ourselves past the limits of our bodies. Now this damn cold’s got me [...]
Last night I walked myself over to a neighborhood bar for a glass of wine. It was 10pm, and there was one stool available. I wedged myself between a portly guy staring into his glass, and a business woman digging into a salad. I’m pretty good at dining and drinking solo, and more often than [...]
“Given its egglike shape and breastlike visible end, it also evokes maternal fertility. Rather than an existential void, its inner darkness might signify a kind of pregnancy in the sense that thoughts, feelings and images are gestated by and born out of unconsciousness.
As far as most of us can remember, our lives emerge from the [...]
You know what I appreciate about defibrillators? They can pluck a stopped heart from the grave, and put a beating one in it. It’s the ultimate life-giving/life-taking machine. Are there many out there like it? Remember the 1990 film Flatliners*? Medical students (Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland — a pantheon of stars, really) induce [...]
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