Vincent's Yellow

a[n] [auto]biography and a love story.

First draft, first steps

One hundred and twenty five years later, the signature Vincent scratched off on a letter to his brother is engraved into my skin. It was my 28th birthday, I had finished the first draft of my book, and when the tattoo artist asked “you want it exactly the same as he wrote it, no?” I […]

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Wed, September 11 2013 » Personal, Writing the Book » 2 Comments

Healing

Dear Reader, I have felt many things over the past few weeks, and it’s made it difficult to clear my head enough to speak clearly here. I regret if my straying has made your curiosity wane (almost a rhyme there), it was not intentional. The other problem has been that my mother and I were […]

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Wed, November 17 2010 » Personal, Popular Culture, Theater piece » 2 Comments

Dreaming

My brain has been a blizzard for a year. The debris is only now just settling down. I need to sleep a lot these days — I suppose to compensate for all the sleeping I didn’t do this summer. I digest my memories. The dream came to its natural end, but I was and still […]

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Mon, September 27 2010 » Personal, Popular Culture, Research » 1 Comment