The mom of one of the roommates is just starting out selling Tupperware, and her son told her that he could get together a group of friends for her to practice on. The mom, a heavy-set woman in a dress, is sitting on a chair, knees demurely together, with all her Tupperware items ...
Instead, one unlikely road near my house became the distanced Barcelona Ramblas of East Atlanta, populated each spring evening by joggers, young couples by the dozen, roommates tossing Frisbees as they strolled, and entire families—everyone awkwardly jostling to space themselves apart along the wid...
I have a very regular writing routine and remember every day that I moved to the Hearst Avenue basement apartment because I didn’t want the noise or the distraction of roommates. One day, I begin to hear hammering right outside my window. I try to tune it out and don’t worry about ...
“Yale” on the CV has served as a handy shorthand for “smart” and “competent” when needed—maybe when applying to grad school or jobs, or needing acceptance from future in-laws, themselves Ivy grads and skeptical of my “Joisey” background. But it has also been interpreted as meanin...
I likewise don’t have a car. I do have the luxury of being able to afford a downtown apartment, in a city where, for the most part, downtown apartments in walk-able neighbourhoods are far more costly than high-rise apartments in car-friendly, pedestrian-hostile inner suburbs. So, yea...
He wrote back, maybe, because his roommates had all moved out and he needed someone to vent to about work. In our emails, we told each other what we had been doing since high school. I shared the details of my breakup and the struggles of parenting. He wrote about the parties, the ...
ll drive in a day is three hours, so we’ll have lots of down time—time for writing: my work and her college essays. When traveling with a teenager, the trick is to keep expectations low, be willing to move in and out of her peripheral vision, bewithher without needing her ...