August 26, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Life can be hard. I know how hard it can be. And then she said, ‘Déjate querer.’ Let yourself be loved.”
July 23, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”
May 21, 2019 JMRL Blog “Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
May 7, 2019 JMRL Blog “Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
April 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
March 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
February 17, 2019 JMRL Blog “I had Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, the four of us sharing the weight of growing up Girl in Brooklyn, as though it was a bag of stones we passed among ourselves saying, Here. Help me carry this.”