Crystal, Clearly

Category: The Arts

  • Bucket List

    Bucket List

    I think every writer wants to create a legacy that will outlive them. I mean, maybe not in such a… Read more.

  • The Drums of Óbidos

    The Drums of Óbidos

    I had entered a time machine, not to medieval Portugal, but to my own youth in 20th century California. When… Read more.

  • Gotta Dance

    Gotta Dance

    I’ve never been good at small talk under the best of circumstances. I really didn’t have it in me that… Read more.

  • These Dreams

    These Dreams

    Dreams are just weird like that, how something can be totally different, and yet, you just know that that is… Read more.

  • Unimaginable

    Unimaginable

    Sometimes, just when I think things can’t get any darker, they very much do. I was on a work phone… Read more.

  • Nevermind

    Nevermind

    These connections– the meaning of Nirvana, these men who ended their own suffering with guns, the dead men I don’t… Read more.

  • Big Feelings

    Big Feelings

    I’m going to pick the Etta Jameses and the Chavela Vargases and any other artist who can put their feelings… Read more.

  • Romantics and Realists

    Romantics and Realists

    these men who practice love like performance art. They give a clever representation but not the thing itself. They pride… Read more.