This World Can Only Give

I Love To Write, So It Rarely Seems Like Work - Even When It Gets Arduous.

The Brain Controls Pain. It Controls Fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything We Associate With The Heart Or The Soul Or The Nervous System Is Actually Controlled By The Brain. Everything. What If You Could Control It?

The Loneliness Of Another Can Be Shocking When It Lays Itself Bare Without Warning.

That's The Thing About Being A Victim; You Start To Think It'll Happen To You On A Regular Basis. It's Living With The Reality Of Your Own Vulnerability, And It Sucks.

Visitation Street Is Urban Opera Writ Large. Gritty And Magical, Filled With Mystery, Poetry And Pain, Ivy Pochoda’s Voice Recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, And Even Alice Sebold, Yet It’s Indelibly Her Own.