What do you think is more likely to change - a person or a situation? Do people get run over every day on Troy's Hoosick Street? Why aren't there more pedestrian crosswalks? Why don't people use the ones which are there? Is it uncommon to alternate between feeling feel ultra calm and on the verge … Continue reading A few random questions for your consideration
Month: October 2015
I Am Princess X
The fiction collection in the library where I work is organized by genre, a situation which sometimes vexes me. I mean, it can be really challenging to decide where a book should be shelved from merely reading the subject tags or the inside of the jacket. Sometimes, a title seems as if it could be … Continue reading I Am Princess X
A tale of two abortions
Many, many years ago an older friend shared with me the story of her illegal abortion. It involved a large amount of money, cash only, of course, a bus ride out of the city and into the "everything looks the same" suburbs, and an extracted promise to never tell anyone where she had been (as … Continue reading A tale of two abortions
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