The Sill of the World

This covers the week of 3/28/21 - 4/3/21. foe In her isolation, she has unraveled. She flails at imagined terrors, as they press in on her f...

This covers the week of 3/21/21 - 3/27/21. biota The season begins with crocuses, progresses to turtles. fending Spiky seed balls plinking o...

This covers the week of 3/14/21 - 3/20/21. branching Brown, crunchy, bristling paths, a clear view of buildings through bare trees. decompre...

This covers the week of 3/7/21 - 3/13/21. ambulate In the largely empty bookstore, a teenaged boy walks in a slow, wide circle while reading...

This covers the week of 2/28/21 - 3/6/21. compulsions We're caught in traps of compulsive behavior – web surfing, phone scrolling, scree...

This covers the week of 2/21/21 - 2/27/21. anticipation Two people at opposite ends of a room. They're holding books, but they aren'...

This covers the week of 2/14/21 - 2/20/21. ache We used to sit in this room with its floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and the lamplight on the r...

This covers the week of 2/7/21 - 2/13/21. dork The role she's been asked to audition for is an improbable one: the effortlessly gorgeous...

This covers the week of 1/31/21 - 2/6/21. complaints As the elevators fail to come for 15, then 20 minutes, I speak to a neighbor from down ...

This covers the week of 1/24/21 - 1/30/21. crumbs Instead of buying a pandemic puppy, she has gone outdoors more frequently to feed pigeons,...

This covers the week of 1/17/21 - 1/23/21. barely Running water in a denuded wood. The bareness makes us wish for a fir or a pine. There...

This covers the week of 1/10/21 - 1/16/21. frozen One chair rests on the ice, and the other two are partly submerged. The ice is thick enoug...

This covers the week of 1/3/21 - 1/9/21. abed Tousled hair, face smushed into the pillow, cold air leaking in. attends Applying for a job, s...

This covers the week of 12/27/20 - 1/2/21. advisory As New Year's Day approaches, Duolingo is telling me something: "Fais plus de s...

This covers the week of 12/20/20 - 12/26/20. cinnamon Errands sweetened by puffs of cinnamon-laden wind from the vendors' carts. frustra...

This covers the week of 12/13/20 - 12/19/20. linguistic An app with a green owl mascot is helping me work on Hebrew writing and French readi...

This covers the week of 12/6/20 - 12/12/20. anemic It's a major shopping avenue, and on normal years it would be teeming with people and...

This covers the week of 11/29/20 – 12/5/20. crusty The basin has been drained. It's encrusted in dirt and leaves like diseased skin. div...

This covers the week of 11/22/20 - 11/28/20. aggravate A letter from him is like a fingernail picking at a scab. animated Vivid things will ...

This covers the week of 11/15/20 - 11/21/20. capturing Leaves sink into mirror-like water. dammed When he serves us drinks in his home, he t...