Learning That Anything Is Possible (At Fifty-five)
I’m fifty-five. It’s a number that is elegant in its doubleness, its mirrored simplicity. I am half-way to ten, eleven times. I am also half-way to sixty, whic...
A veteran New Yorker now based in Abu Dhabi, I am a writer, professor, and former columnist at The National, the English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. My work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Rumpus, and The Paris Review Daily; a selection of my work can be found at clippings.me/debwilliams