Category Archives: letters from away
Home Again
I sit at the gate in Athens airport, Gate A5, waiting for my flight to London, and make the drawing above. The plane is delayed, and it occurs to me that as soon as I left Sifnos, everything that has … Continue reading
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The Mermaid’s Chapel
The night before I made this drawing, I went with my friends for cocktails at the home of the former ambassador to Greece and his wife, who have a beautiful house there on the edge of Kastro, overlooking the ocean. … Continue reading
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The Message T-Shirts Of Athens
I spend 36 hours getting to Athens, and that isn’t my final destination. The first flight goes relatively well. I exit at London Gatwick at 6:25 AM, having had little sleep due to two chatty Aussie women behind me, young … Continue reading
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Where To Go, What To Do, & How To Have Your Best Summer Ever
I’m standing in my mother’s guest room, having just arrived for Memorial Day, when she says, Norman found these and they’re yours. Norman is my mother’s second husband, a man with an enormous capacity for helping. He’s often doing things … Continue reading
Back In The Town Where I Met Stephen Beachy And Had Blue Hair
When I was an MFA student, Stephen Beachy’s beautiful debut novel, The Whistling Song, was one of my talismanic objects of worship kept close to my bedtable (Anna Karenina is there right now). Stephen is one of my heroes, and … Continue reading
Letter From This Week Which Isn’t Soon Enough But Has To Do For Now.
It’s snowing outside and I have to leave the warm office bedroom I’ve created for myself in this cavernous, drafty apartment, to get coffee and eggs, somehow. Thick piles of fluffy snow line the streets, which appear to be clearing, … Continue reading
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In Which I Realize Again That Capitalism Is Not My Friend
This was a pre-Christmas post that I discovered in my drafts section and forgot to post, because I spent way, way too much time at the San Mateo Starbucks and started to forget who I was, and why. I thought … Continue reading
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Things I’m Not Doing On My Winter Break, Part Deux
My friend Noah sent me these of him and his friends. I was supposed to be in Trinidad, CA, this week with him, checking out the beaches of Humbold County. So, I am not, for example, surfing with my friend … Continue reading
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Things I’m Not Doing
My friend Mary Lum sent this to me today, from Paris, where she’s exhibiting new work. Two men walking down a Paris street. This is me wishing I was there.
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