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January 9 - January 12, 2021
Homesickness is an ailment of the stomach as much as of the mind.
edible antidepressant.
I stared at them for a while and then started to smile because I knew that they were wrong.
Perhaps because it wasn’t a mainstay in my daily life, perhaps because it wasn’t informed by my parents’ immediate cultural understanding, and perhaps because it was in that rarefied world of American culinary comfort, I turned to pie-making as a coping mechanism. I figured that if I actually made the confections readily associated with those who were tormenting me, I might circumvent the sometimes-brutal circumstances in which I found myself. Why not commit to something so dearly embraced by American culture to see if it would legitimize me more?
oh my god...
If you think petroleum products are vegan, are you thinking back far enough?
