Category: Longform

My great-grandmother Mimi lost her mind from too much memory and found it at the rabbi’s grave. To cure her, my grandfather, just a boy, carried her weight on his shoulders two hours each way in the desert. This is the story my grandfather told us about his childhood in Morocco, though by then he… Continue reading Pursuing My Family’s Ghosts in Morocco

I began my relationship with Drake when I was living out of a suitcase, rebuilding myself from the ground up after the unwinding of my first adult relationship. My best friend Josh would let me crash for weeks at a time on his couch in Fort Greene, which is how I came to be sitting… Continue reading The Golden HYFR