remember four years ago? it was the holiday season just like this one. we were sitting on the floor by the couch chatting after everyone else had gone to bed. we both recently finished a tree grows in brooklyn* and were …

this weekend a friend asked me, as we walked through the mall, if i wanted to leave the country--permanently. it was ironic that he happened to ask me only moments after this sudden urge to live in another place hit me (…