When I was 9 my doctor showed me a drawing that looked like a wave. She was pretty, with shiny cropped hair, and a tan like  my mothers’ – skin freckled and toasted smelling. “Here,” she pointed to the wave’s lowest point, “- is the lightest, ” then she moved her finger to the wave’s [...]

  I was squatting naked on the floor. I held the glass scale in my hands and knocked it repetitively with medium force on the only exposed square of laminate on my floor, portioned out of the sea of clothing that covered the rest of my floor and cleared, for just this purpose. In this [...]

The internet-age is a double-edged sword like everything. It gives us unlimited access to information and the potential to educate ourselves and connect with the world around us. But its got a shadow side too, and shadow is fitting, because nothing is as straightforward as black and white – there are degrees of awful that [...]