New York, I Love You—But Are You Bringing Me Down?
What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?
What parts of me are still fed by my New York environment? Are other parts of me getting hungrier? For more, or for something else entirely?
I felt I had something to prove. But the Manhattan, unchanged since its nineteenth-century origins, has nothing to prove.
“A baby has two superpowers: the ability to suck productive time out of a day and the ability to bleed a wallet dry.”
“My former home office, with its glorious door separating it from our bedroom, is now our son’s domain.”
“It is a bewildering and lonely thing to be so attached to another human and also feel so adrift and so alone.”
How becoming a parent helped me set more reasonable creative goals.
“In many ways, I’m back where I started—except now I’m almost twenty years older, and I have a kid.”
“I was left dazed and sad and missing my cat while tending to a newborn.”
“Having been alive as a woman for several decades in the United States, I was not shocked by the control being exerted on women’s bodies.”
Kayaking, Bill Murray, and Christmas trees in New York.