Guest blog by Lillian Isabella, writer, actor. Over the course of a year I traveled all over New York City interviewing 28 different women about female sexuality. I asked them questions like… How would you describe an orgasm? What makes a great lover? How did your childhood shape your sexuality? I recorded the interviews and…
I’ve been loving pears these days, as I tend to do through the last days of summer and first days of fall. I made up a new virgin cocktail recipe I call “The Sweet Tart” yesterday and a new confection recipe, “Light Chocolate Mousse” today. Both are plant-based recipes and vegan, with the sweetness of…
When does love begin? I have a memory that I think is from before I was born, where everything is dense and fluid pressing up against me like an ocean. From this familiarity and safety, a kind of love may have already begun. And who could deny that babies love their mother, that most intimate…
Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan, is my new short story now available for downloads in the Kindle store. The story takes place on the last day of summer in 2018. But it was born 14 years ago on a trip to Old San Juan from a strange dream, and then developed during the…
“Who’s the sweet young thing?” asked a female postdoc. “She’s MY sweet young thing,” the taller professor who was showing me around the lab said, grinning. The first day of my first undergraduate lab rotation in molecular biology began strangely. I was learning to run gels to separate the two paired strands of DNA that…
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