The name of the store was "Possibilities," which I frequented with my friend at the time, Kara, the only Pisces in my life I've ever befriended. It sat next to a therapist's office right off Pittston Avenue in Scranton, a therapist I visited only once at my mother's urging after my parents divorced, but that's not what this is about (although the timing of traumatic childhood event and thinking I was a witch pairs nicely, like spicy red wine and a good cut of meat.)
Tag: Personal
Rolling Out the Mat: How Yoga With Adriene Changed My Life
It was October of 2019 and I was reading A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, the first installment of the All Souls Trilogy. There's a particular scene in the book when Matthew (vampire) invites Diana (witch), a yoga aficionado (and professional rower and alchemical historian and skinny blonde...groan) to a late night yoga session with a room full of other witches, vampires and daemons.
Future Star: Reflections on Pipe Dreams and Self-Obsession
The hankering for fame like no other started as early as I can remember. I was an only child, so the center of attention simply by default, and I thrived most in climates where I was the focal point of the room. By four or five, I was already destined to be a Rockette at best, a groupie at worst, always discovered by my parents moving wildly in the center of some dance floor filled with drunk adults.
Gringa: A True Story of Culture Shock, False Promises and That Time I (Almost) had a Sugar Daddy
"You have a nice figure, Gringa. But you could still get a little more meat on your bones."



