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Divorce
Starting Over
The Ganges river, Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, Key West
September 1997Traveling Stories
My father, though, seemed unaware of my contempt, and in June, as my high-school-graduation gift, he took me to Torremolinos, on the coast of Spain. He’d booked us a room at a midpriced, touristy hotel through some educator’s discount travel plan. We saw a bullfight. We swam.
March 1997Taking Sides
Buying a gun; reading Being Peace, by Thich Nhat Hanh; going to the hole for fifteen days
September 1996A Failed Divorce
Living beyond my means in a Manhattan apartment with two babies, no income, and a philandering husband, I suddenly found myself as vulnerable and dependent as any traditional suburban housewife.
May 1996The End Of The Day
A west-facing window and Scotch, the Sacred Order of the Kitchen, photos of the summer solstice
December 1995On Earth As It Is In Heaven
I knew I was in trouble. It was the way Mama looked at me from across the dining-room table, like I had wandered off and left her, even though I was sitting right there.
March 1995Idle Speed
A Prison Journal
I became a crook, endorsing checks made out to the stock brokerage I worked for, putting the funds in my checking account, trading heavily in stock options — always telling myself everyone would be paid off handsomely, and no one would ever know.
March 1994
