June 21, 2019July 26, 2024 JMRL Blog “Standing in the doorway of the newspaper’s office, he watched the streetcar continue on its eastward way, and he knew that if he lived to be a hundred, he would never be more in love than he was now.”
May 21, 2019 JMRL Blog “Anna smelled the bay, its oily piers. Clusters of seagulls hopped at the shore like white rabbits.”
May 7, 2019 JMRL Blog “Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it.”
April 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things”
March 21, 2019 JMRL Blog “We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
March 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “Though we have both suffered misfortune, we are lucky to have spent our whole lives together”
February 19, 2019 JMRL Blog “Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us.”