Somewhere along the way, tension became a virtue. If you are busy, you must be important.If you are stressed, you…
There was a time when sugar didn’t come from the store first. It came from next door. You knocked, embarrassed…
They were not fighting. That matters. This was one of those quiet evenings where nothing was wrong, which somehow makes…
We used to arrive places with our whole body. Now we arrive physically, while the rest of us is still…
When the woman joined the country club, nobody bothered to look twice. She was not flashy, did not float in…
They sit at the table, still fill up the room,Their coat on the hook, their mug on the chair,We talk…
Small talk is the social equivalent of elevator music. Nobody asked for it, nobody enjoys it, yet somehow we all…
We were raised on urgency. Not the healthy kind, like running toward something meaningful, but the twitchy, stress-fuelled kind that…
A country is not a line on a map or a piece of cloth fluttering on a pole. Borders can…
Let’s be honest. If intimacy had a customer service line, most long-term couples would be on hold listening to soft…