Roughing It
This was our first substantial vacation together. I’d just lost my job. It was late, I was hungry, I couldn’t read my emails, and the question, “Do you understand what we’re trying to do here?” suddenly had greater heft than he’d intended.
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The Terrible Twenties. Or: What Happens When I Don’t Get Enough Sleep
I, along with so many of my friends, find myself in the throes of the second most frustrating and temper-tantrum inducing time of my life: the terrible 20’s.
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For MOT, the day after his birthday
When I was in Kindergarten, I received in my Easter basket a small yellow autograph book with dancing bears on its cover. Everyone in my...
Read MoreHow Frying Chicken for Notorious B.I.G. Made Me a Lifelong Fan of Hip Hop
During the brutal winter of 1997, my sister and I were recruited to the kitchen of the catering shop where my father worked on weekends,...
Read MoreI Don’t Want To Hold Your Baby (Subtitle: Change Resistant; Change Compliant)
As a ten year old girl, already showing my predilection for pragmatism and my utter distaste for uprooting the status quo, I informed my...
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