Author Archive
Make Believe
I am writing a commission about environmental activism. For those who know me, this may come as a bit of a shock. Yes I recycle and yes I pick garbage off the ground from time to time; and yes I sold my car last summer and I ride public transit when it is too cold to bike to wherever I need to go. But I sold my car because I hate parking in Chicago. I sold my car because I needed the money. I would...
Snow Day
I am trying to remember exactly what I did on snow days. I remember loving them. They were rare, and maybe that alone was enough to make them appealing: it wasn’t so much what I did but what I wasn’t doing, namely school. Not that I disliked school. Part of me thinks that anyone who grew up to become a dramaturg probably liked school to some degree. But there is a certain gleefulness in...
Memory Lapses
I have no memory for names. I used to, and oddly I can recall names — some of them anyway — that were stored before September of 2000. Nothing particularly magical happened in September of 2000. I did start college, but my lifestyle did not change significantly in terms of the intake of potential memory-washing substances. But I am fairly certain this is about when the deterioration of...
