I can’t believe I’m starting this on New Year’s Day. It was either this or changing my diet, so this writing project won faster than I could say intermittent fasting. Suddenly I find myself a resident of New Mexico.

His arms wrapped around me wholly. Big, expansive and as powerful as his reach within the art community. Up until an hour ago he was a complete stranger. He still was in all the ways except one.

New Mexico is no joke. New Mexico is the Hispanic cousin to NYC, and it wears a t-shirt that says: I don’t owe you shit.

Dear Returns and Exchanges,

It has most recently befallen me I may be missing an essential element of instructions from a product I purchased from you some years ago. The approximate purchase date was on or around my birth.

Dear Connie,

I never meant for so much time to pass in between this letter and my last. I guess life got the better of me. Small tasks seem to have piled onto one another until only now I realize they’ve evolved into a routine from which I cannot escape.

It was only safe at the top of the stairs. The landing was just wide enough to fit my sister and I.