Author Archives: Dharmishta Rood

I’ve covered my entire window in tin foil and laid a huge tarp down on the floor of my room.

I’ve been waiting for this epic conversation for weeks. I made three different shirts, changed pants about 50 times, and put on a swimsuit under my clothes, just to be prepared for anything.

Sometimes I feel like I’m wearing memories. No one else knows which memories I have on, but I know. I walk around, being reminded of what thoughts I’ve woven into the fabric each time I look to make sure I didn’t tuck my skirt into my stretch pants or have my belt on backward. I […]

They’ve taken over my posture, the way I walk, and the way I think about myself. I feel that they’re shaping the way I’m seen. My experience is different, as if I am floating. Never have I felt better, had legs longer or walked more confidently. I used to feel this way every day, but […]

Hair is like Marilyn Monroe: fashionable but dead. But what does this mean to you? It means you are making a conscious decision to have a certain “fashion” just by wearing your hair a particular way. Nearly every other part of fashion can be avoided, but hairstyles are unavoidable. The hair just grows out of […]

It’s dark and I can’t breathe. I’m trapped in a shadowy coffin. I can’t find the lights. Claustrophobia sets in. I’m trying to find the switch to light the room to start the machine that I’m inside of …. Suddenly the room is light. I am comfortable, warm and I can’t believe I’m doing this. […]

When I went to the bank the other day, my teller was a man who had the most sculpted eyebrows I had ever seen. He had clearly gotten them waxed, but I couldn’t stop staring at them. Not because I’d never seen a guy with nice eyebrows before, but because they looked so good. If […]