Remember that time last summer when my shrink dumped me? One thing I have learned in therapy is that I hate talking about myself; I find self-disclosure gauche and un-ladylike. KIDDING of course, because I am totally writing about therapy on my blog RIGHT THIS SECOND. Fooled you for a minute though. One thing I have [...]
I woke up this morning wanting to go home. I want to see wide open skies, and rolling hills, and bathe in the scent of freshly cut grass streaming in through my open car windows, one of the sweetest smells there is. I want to drive out Dogleg Road, across 40, and up the gravel [...]
Almost ten years ago, I went to Ireland with my sister, one of our best friends, E, and E’s boyfriend, M. Of all of the trips I took to Ireland in my wild and misspent youth, that one was the most disastrous, with lots of rain and dissension in the ranks about where to go [...]
I started this blog exactly one year ago, in the midst of a painful breakup with Lieu that turned out to be not the end of the road, but a fork. We just spent the weekend together, and it was lovely. Blah blah blah, a million words later…I love that boy, come what may. I’ve [...]
I have an unshakable belief in my latent abilities as a diagnostician. My credentials include thousands of Reader’s Digest articles about people bravely battling diseases (all read before age 18; Reader’s Digest is sophisticated reading material in Ohio and I was always happy to babysit for folks classy enough to own the bound editions); lots of New Yorker science [...]
1. Overnight, everyone in your life–everyone on Facebook, everyone in your office, all of your friends and lovers–has turned into a ginormous asshole. You used to love these people, or at least like them, right? Why are they suddenly challenging every word that comes out of your mouth and condescending to you? Why is their [...]
”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only [...]
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