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Cutest Couple, an Individualist’s Dilemma
November 21, 2025
Cutest Couple, an Individualist’s Dilemma (A Love Story) In high school, my senior year superlative in the yearbook was a shared victory. My then-boyfriend...
Pre-Grief, and Other Myths
August 29, 2025
Pre-Grief, and Other Myths This summer has been an exercise in preparation. Wait. Let me back up a little. This year has been an exercise in expectations. I...
Filling One's Cup
July 25, 2025
Filling One’s Cup In the past few weeks I’ve noticed people on social media using the phrase “cup filling,” as in “this thing I’m doing is re-filling my...
Quiet in a Storm
June 14, 2025
Quiet in a Storm As I’m writing this, there are mass protests happening around the world. Not just in places like DC or New York City, but in small towns and...
Telling Myself Stories
April 15, 2025
Telling Myself Stories Right now I’m reading We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine by Alissa Wilkinson. It’s as much about...
There Is Only Now
February 28, 2025
There Is Only Now Not to be an alarmist, but the other day I wrote a poem. This is not normal behavior for me. In fact, if I can be honest, I’ve written a...
Challenge Accepted
January 31, 2025
Challenge Accepted In my December newsletter, I mentioned my New Year’s theme for 2025 would be to be more discerning. To be honest, I wasn’t even entirely...
Home Stretch
December 19, 2024
Home Stretch This will be my last newsletter of 2024, so as usual, I’m feeling introspective about the year that’s been and hopeful about the year to come....
How to Part Clouds
October 30, 2024
How to Part Clouds I don’t know about you, but it’s been hard to focus lately. Anxiety is coming at me at multiple angles these days, and I won’t pretend a...
Pull Shapes
September 17, 2024
Pull Shapes During the pandemic, my boyfriend and I bought an exercise bike. It was more for mental health than physical health at the time, but seeing my...
What's Next
August 8, 2024
What’s Next A couple weeks ago, I saw a headline for a NYT op-ed that felt directed at me. It felt so targeted, in fact, that I did not click on it, at least...
Buzz
May 30, 2024
Buzz Two years ago, I wrote about how much I dislike summer and how, despite my grumpiness by August, I repeat the cycle of anticipation and excitement every...
April, Come She Will
April 29, 2024
April, Come She Will April has been a strange month. I had a whole other essay nearly ready to send, but as I was putting my final edits on it I realized it...
Adulting Toward Bethlehem
March 29, 2024
Adulting Toward Bethlehem Yesterday I saw an article about Millennials who were born in 1990 feeling ready, finally, at 34, to buy their own home and “be an...
Not a Pretty Girl (reprise)
February 23, 2024
Not a Pretty Girl (reprise) This month I got to see Ani DiFranco perform in Hadestown on Broadway, and if you're in New York or will be soon, I highly...
So It Goes
January 26, 2024
So It Goes About a year ago I started writing short stories. I’d dabbled in short stories before, but last year is when an actual collection started to take...
Comedy Nerd
November 16, 2023
Comedy Nerd When I was little, I was convinced I’d grow up and marry a stand-up comedian. Not any one comedian in particular. Just a comedian. (Well, not a...
Hello To All This
September 26, 2023
Hello To All This When I was in grad school, my advisor gave me a piece of advice that I don’t think she intended to stay with me for as long as it has. Like...
Arrivals and Departures
August 13, 2023
Arrivals and Departures Seventeen years ago, this month, I moved into my first apartment in New York City. August is a pretty common month to move somewhere...
The Life-Changing Magic of Digital Decluttering
June 19, 2023
The Life-Changing Magic of Digital Decluttering In April, I sent out a letter called “How To Disappear,” which was about my changing relationship with the...
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