very specific and entertainingly superficial concerns about moving to Jordan in 3 weeks

(from a Facebook message to a friend-of-a-friend who spent the last year living in Amman) What might be the average Jordanian response to a woman with short hair? I don’t have short hair now (I did for 10+ years) but am thinking about getting it cut. Will I be taken for a lesbian? Or do […]

information overload

(excerpts from a letter to E) I’m writing from a ‘tiny house’ (believe it) in someone’s backyard in Burlington. It’s actually super sweet (it’s just big enough for a queen size futon and a nightstand, is lit by Christmas lights and a desk lamp, and there is even an aging white cat named Che that […]