We Were All Okay With It

Thank you to Sandi Wisenberg for publishing “We Were All Okay With It” in Another Chicago Magazine’s “Dispatches from a Pandemic” feature. I’m proud to be included in this publication.

From ACM’s website: “For a long time now, ACM has believed that everything is political, and has been partial to writing that confronts injustice and inequality, though not in didactic or polemical ways. We have always encouraged writing that jumped past the conventional and traditional to, as the (disgraced) bard said, “make it new.” ACM has encouraged play and rage and courageous attempts. Contributors have included writers from Chicago and from afar, neophytes to established writers, Charles Bukowski to Samantha Irby.

Always ACM has valued work that pushes the conventions stylistically, publishing experimental writers such as Ander Monson and Michael Martone. ACM also published the early work of David Sedaris, Jennny Boully, Ira Sukrungruang, and Kathleen Rooney, among others.”

Yoga in the Time of Coronavirus

News! The Syndrome Mag has published a hilarious book of essays: Show Us Your Wits. I’m pleased to be included in this book with a piece titled “A Coronavirus Yoga Practice” that shows how to amend all those familiar poses with new ones—Quarantine Puppy feels much more appropriate than Downward Dog, as does Floating Cruise Ship instead of Boat Pose.

From the website:

The Syndrome Mag unveils “Show Us Your Wits: Funny Women Surviving Coronavirus Lockdown by Laughing Through It”, an anthology of funny essays about how women and nonbinary writers across the world are coping with quarantine, social distancing, teleworking, parenting from home and all the other challenges we face because of the COVID-19 crisis.

More than 50 hysterical writers from the U.S., Italy, England, Spain, Holland, Iran, Pakistan, Mexico and beyond take on topics such as:

  • Being pregnant during lockdown

  • Coping with a parent with dementia who’s quarantining with you

  • Living through what the U.S. president has labeled the “Chinese virus” as a Chinese-American

  • Surviving depression, loneliness, and sexual frustration

  • Learning to teach on Zoom

  • Why older women won’t sacrifice themselves for the “good of the economy”

  • Keeping fit (or not) as a survival skill

  • When it’s time to kiss your quarantine leggings goodbye