Marta Troicka
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Will Probably Be Late to the Party
From East Village about allergies, East Village, Family, Food, Nuts, Paranoia, Party, Siblings, Sweet and SourPublished on: 01/21/2014
Sometimes, I do this thing where I put jam on a banana and eat it. It’s called a banana jam. I have some favorite books and movies. I don’t have cable but I do have my own Hulu Plus subscription. I don’t really have any special innate skills but I’m pretty good at jigsaw puzzles. I live in Brooklyn.
One afternoon this summer I was on the subway. All was normal. Well, except that we are in a pandemic, which makes venturing down into NYC’s netherworld — one with poor ventilation and tons of non-mask wearers – feel like I am putting my life in my overly sanitized hands. It all seemed surreal. The […]
I was only five, but I knew my mom and dad were in court that day fighting over custody rights. The rainy gray outside—plus the turmoil of yelling and crying, nighttime stirrings, and mornings waking up in different rooms or houses or cars, and not understanding what was going on or where exactly was home—had […]
I was scrolling through Twitter after midnight a couple of weeks ago when I read that the photographer and New York personality Ricky Powell had died. The news hit me because as kids we’d spent a lot of time together at the 14th Street Y in afterschool programs. Biddy Basketball and Sportsman’s Clinic, and the […]
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