Talk to the Map

A map says up to here and no further. A map says this is all I’ve got to say. A Continue reading →

Cake: A Guide to Relationships

Understand that you are alone. That in order to write you must be alone, no matter how dark and murky Continue reading →

A Prayer for New Things

At the start of the New Year, or when we do something for the first time, or even the first Continue reading →

Picnic in the Park

On particularly warm summer days they’d take the children to the park for lunch, all twelve of them, with extra Continue reading →

Bring Me Winter

I must make time to go to the park i must make time to go to the park i must Continue reading →

Other Parks: Prospect Park

It wasn’t even summer yet and already the heat was unbearable. My brother’s flat in Brooklyn was above a fried Continue reading →

The Half-Way Mark

Some facts about Clissold Park: How big is the Park? 54 acres. That’s about 15 times smaller than Central Park, Continue reading →

Repetition is Prayer

A glimpse. A reminder. A prayer. A temple. A god. There are places in the city that orient us, that Continue reading →