I need to take classes: sketching, sewing, GMAT prep course, creative writing. It seems like everything’s on hold. I am reading a book on ADD. I check my phone to see if you called or texted me. People let me down. I let myself down this time. I don’t like when people have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. Your actions: I play your actions on my mind over and over again. Why did you miss so many opportunities to tell me the things that you knew I needed to know? Walk, think. Cry. Miss. Breathe. There’s no poetry. I have to work on my NPR pieces as soon as possible. I came home last night and cooked some Ukrainian salad and seafood soup. I decided to cook this entire week. It was relaxing, distracting. The soup came out good, but not as good as the one I had the day before at a friend’s house. My new friend is a twenty-something doctor trying to make it here. She’s bright, she can be funny. She wants to help people. According to her, she can give them a second chance. I almost didn...