The Sill of the World

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...