Reclusive in Vermont asks, Can you tell me more about this Jesus guy? He used to be my boyfriend. Like Harvey (the rabbit), he wasn’t someone that people could see, but he was always with me. Unlike Harvey (the rabbit), I didn’t let on to others that he was around. In fact, I never spoke […]

“Plagued in Syracuse” asks, What the fuck? In preparation for my answer, I have deeply immersed myself in your question—I have read the newspaper and exclaimed it approximately seven times. I have read my morning email and whispered What the Fuck more times than I’d care to admit. I have even rearranged the order of […]

I have come to the end of responding to the twelve questions in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers by Bhanu Kapil. I am now offering my services as a different kind of Agony Aunt—one who attempts to answer unanswerable or open-ended questions. Please feel free to send me what is unanswerable or open-ended, and I […]

What Is The Shape of Your Body? * (#5) ** Who were they, these people, who cooked all Saturday evening, so they could leave early for a picnic on a Sunday morning? Why was it that every one of their picnics was traveled toward in a convoy of cars? (Each car carrying an entire family. […]

What Is The Shape of Your Body? * (#4)** There were many years when, six out of seven days of the week, I would be in a room, dancing within an hour of waking. My morning ritual of moving my body to music felt holy. The fact that the movement was exactly the same each […]

What Is The Shape of Your Body? * (#3)** We don’t treat all parts of our skin equally. There is a focus on the face, but I’m not sure why. It does not seem like our own decision; it feels foisted on us from external forces. The most important area of skin is on the […]

What Is The Shape of Your Body? * (#2) ** In childhood, they told me I was a baby pig. Which caused a lot of confusion when I looked in the mirror and didn’t see a snout. But I went back to that mirror day after day until eventually my porcine nose came into focus. […]

How Will You Begin? * My love of dawn is so fierce that I manage to make others fall in love with it too. I will stop at nothing. I brew. I prepare breakfast banquets. I offer meditations on love and art. I have even employed a chanteuse to sing an aubade: Praise for the […]

How Will You Live Now? * I am playing a game with the sunrise. I’ve been beating it for seven years. I’m not at all competitive, so it feels wrong to say that I “beat” the morning sun. Perhaps I should say that I wake up before the sun let’s me see it. That would […]

What are the consequences of silence[1]? [2] * [3]       ____________________ [1] A footnote is a tender thing. [2] An argument about a candlestick holder. Specifically, it’s placement. Specifically, how any place the candlestick holder landed would not be the right place for it, as long as it was my hand that selected […]