Blue door with pictographs on Euclid Avenue, The Annex

The yellow signs:

• Please tango within the dotted lines
• Caution: yoga mat slippery when wet
• Umbrella won’t deploy? Put your knee into it

The black signs:

• Pull yourself up by your bootstraps…
• No cufflinks, no service
• Keep blood from papercuts safely contained
• …both of them

Yellow door on Bolton Avenue, Queen-Broadview Village

Most women have a biological clock whose loud ticking reminds them that their prime child-bearing years are slipping away second by second. As I progress through my early thirties, I hear a rhythmic beat all right, but it’s not from the second hand of an internal baby clock. It’s the sound of knocking at a ...
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