Been hard to focus today as I think about the bombings in London, how horrible it must have been to be trapped underground in the Tube with the chaos and smoke and general hysteria and confusion. There’s a hard knot of pain in my stomach that has nothing to do with the wonton soup I […]

Tonight, once again, I’m being a rotten girlfriend. D is playing a show at Sky Bar in 20 minutes, but I won’t be there; I’ll be doing somet fairly pointless stuff here at home, listening to Yo La Tengo, enjoying how absorbed I can get in writing, reading, retreating. This pains me — Georgia wouldn’t […]

Last weekend, Theo’s vet showed us how my cat’s gum was growing down over his canine tooth. He told us that Theo had a feline ondoclastic resorptive lesion and recommended that the tooth be extracted. It seems so harsh and strange to think that my poor cat will be partially defanged, but the more I […]