things I want to tell you...

how I couldn’t sleep at 3am and got up and wrote instead

the book I’m reading and how maybe I’m far enough away from the start of the pandemic that I can read this book now. (Animal Instinct – Amy Shearn) what you would have thought about it, even though neither of us are mothers, and never wanted to be.

how hard it is to be a person sometimes even I don’t have a kid to absorb all my time

all the library cards I make for women who’ve gotten married, but their emails carry their maiden name.

how one of my favorite kids is moving in two weeks and I wonder what he will remember from this time in his life, this neighborhood, his nanny, the library, me.

how much I still can’t read time travel books, because I long for it so much I’d give anything.

I reread The Plot and it’s still so satisfying. The incredulity sometimes, that a mother could do that. mothers are just people after all.

I had people over last weekend and as we sat and talked, I looked around the room and only one person wasn’t queer.

how I would endure summer forever if you would return.

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