Better Than Drunk Dialing
Yeah, so the mystery book that showed up at my door was from my sister and apparently we'd had a recent phone conversation about it. So, I've reached the overtaxed point where discussions with humans […]
What’s In Vogue
I bought a German Vogue at the airport on the way back to NYC to use up my remaining euros. It didn't matter that I couldn't read it (the imported English language magazines cost more […]
30 Something Grandmas
Yes, 30 Something Grandmas, the reality show. That is all.
Opkast Is Danish For Vomit
James pays for streaming Netflix even though we probably don’t use it more than once a month because we watch cable and nothing I want on demand is ever on streaming Netflix. To rectify this, […]
Young Adults
Even though I was just in Berlin two Sundays ago (at this moment I’d probably be having a beer in a British chain sports bar attached to a hostel so James could try and catch […]
Would You Like Fry With That?
Of the 20 million things that annoy me on a daily basis (I just discovered that the sound of a spoon rapidly scraping the remaining bits of yogurt from a plastic container makes me violent—hmm…no, […]
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
I did eat a berliner, one regular and one miniaturized and double Michelin-starred. But this is not about food. Berlin is Not Brooklyn. I hear Berlin/Brooklyn comparisons, though with the exception of Berlin’s size and […]
Not Catching the Worm
I’m not sure which is more Portland: chastising someone ran over by a cab (driven by a female—very un-NYC) while sleeping in their motel room for still being in bed at 11am (my family all […]
The Middle Ages: 42
"I write as candidly as possible about my decades-long struggle with mental illness, about sex and relationships, and about the difficulties of being a middle-aged poet with a lousy publication record. It’s really not a […]
I Did Know I Was Pregnant
For the love of god, please make me stop watching Secretly Pregnant. Something about these do-nothing holidays always drags me into a marathon of a previously unknown-to-me cable show. I forced myself to turn off […]