Category: Essay
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An Ode to Pomegranates
Their lipstick-color stains, their Alcatraz armor, their popping seeds and unflinching dance with decay. Make a night of it. Pomegranates are sensual, fair and square. Shielded in a dense, almost wooden exterior that requires all manner of skill to coax open, they play hard to get. The messiness of reaching their center eventually (key word:…
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City’s Best Friend
If there’s one animal that defines Venice, it’s pigeons. No, cats. Seagulls? Some might even say rats. But no one ever says dogs. When it comes up that I moved my dog from the great pet-friendly mecca of DFW to the city on water, people ask if it’s really such a great place for dogs.…
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A Seasonally Curated Reading List for the Narcissistically Introspective
A guide for choosing what book to crack open depending on the time of year, which, of course, accounts for weather patterns, cultural occasions (such as holidays), and mood. Fair warning: you risk being transported to an alternate universe so frustratingly similar yet different from our own, like inside your least favorite Paul Thomas Anderson…
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Are You There Chattanooga? It’s Me, Isabella
In favor of going east Ever since I was a little gi—ever since I was 26 and learned how Appalachians pronounce Appalachia (app-uh-latch-uh), I’ve wanted to make my way up to that city sittin’ pretty on the Tennessee River. Chattanooga. No, I have not been to Nashville, nor Memphis. Yes, I still have to check…
Isabella Agostino 