• Living With Trump Is Exhausting

    I’m feeling so tired. And yes, this is partly because I’ve spent the past two weeks working like a madwoman, steadily doing 13-hour days between school and online work, with a trip to…

  • The Big Chop – Cutting My Hair Off

    “You’re sure? Absolutely sure? Because once I start, there’s no going back!” The hair stylist brushed my long pink hair out, one eyebrow raised. I’d just come in, asking to have most of…

  • Monotony, and the First Snow

    It snowed today, crisp white crystals sailing down from above to stick to my scarf, my hat, my umbrella, my tongue. The first snow of the season. Do the weather gods know that…

  • Fall on Alfred St.

    Life on Alfred St. has been quiet of late. The fall storms have begun to saunter in, blowing across the lake in cold grey puffs and hiding the blue sky. It drizzles chilly…