Recently on a Sunday I stopped by the
Williamsburg home of my dear friend
Sarah Dohrmann, a writer and also "my boss" at
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, the org through which I teach creative writing in public schools, and which she leads as education director. I was in her neighborhood for lunch; she was at home in a
vintage sweater and crazy-print housepants, the weekend usual. Here's Sarah, pictured above, presenting her beloved
otter pillow, a recent gift from writer
Nicole Callihan, who gave it to Sarah when Sarah fell inexplicably in love with it at first sight in Nicole's home. Cooing sounds not pictured.
Below, a
Bedford-facing window with hem and hat; an
assemblage above the desk; a perfect little lamp—like if the lamp was in a cartoon, it would have this shape. More captions below...
The paintings are by her friend,
artist Andy Ness. I love the one of lungs. That's
Sarah gesturing over a spread of his works (with otter pillow!), the result of a collaboration of his paintings and her writings. The gorgeous textile is a
Moroccan Berber wedding cape that hangs on the wall next to her bed. A stack of books rests on the desk; crazy housepants and a rug handmade by her grandmother; a ribbon from a baby shower tied to the neck of a lamp (what's life without a little
fire hazard?); a collage; the underside of a horned mask, a Puerto Rican
vejigante, looking up.