Save the Date
For my birthday, a darling friend of mine sent me a book. “I get it next!!” Was scrawled on the card. I removed the pink book-cover, taking note of the title: Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest (Jen Doll). Admittedly, I was reluctant at first. It sounded Peep-like, frankly – sugar coated fluff. The […]
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I went on 50 first dates, one in every state, for a few reasons: because I wanted to prove dating didn’t suck. Because I wanted something to write about and dating was prevalent in my life anyway. Because talking to strangers makes me ridiculously happy and energetic. Because dating sometimes equals kissing. Most of all […]
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Choosing to Stand Still
My heart has been screaming go again lately. Screaming, I tell you. It’s a familiar feeling – the same sort of “let’s remix this business” feeling that propelled me get into a car and drive across the country and back with a filmmaker. The same sort of feeling that urges me to find a new apartment. […]
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Kind Noticing: A Personal How-To
The fraud police were on high alert this morning when I walked into the yoga studio. This particular patrol are “an imaginary, terrifying force of experts and real grown-ups who don’t exist and who come knocking on your door saying ‘fraud police. we’ve been watching you and we have evidence that you have no idea what […]
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Oh Hey, Vulnerability!
I’ve had a cold this entire week. Being a phlegm factory isn’t my favorite (I say that like there is a person out there who goes “WOOT! MUCAS!” To be fair, I’d probably be that person. And to be fair, there are some silver linings to listening to something assuredly yellow rattling around between your […]
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A Conversation About Independence at the Water Slides
Some days my heart feels like it’s being squeezed the way one longs to squeeze a tube of toothpaste: from the middle, letting all the minty-freshness bulge on either end, while simultaneously being twisted like a washcloth being wrung out before being applied to ease a migraine. In those moments, the least thing I feel […]
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Nicknames and Lesbians and Dating Conversations
My wonderful friend Angie has an equally wonderful mom – who also happens to be opinionated about the strangest of things: like how names are spelled. Names should be written out how they sound. No mysterious silent letters, no “J” when a “G” would do fine, just fine. So I told Angie about my second […]
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The Luckiest
Birthdays – namely my own – tend to make me bashful. Much as I like celebrating everyone else’s everythingness, I’m still not comfortable putting my hands in the air and razzle-dazzling my fingers like a cheerleader for my own. Wondering why never felt like a priority until this year, when I found a strange […]
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32
I remember what I was doing when I turned 30 (which was ridiculously hilarious). And I remember what I was thinking about when I turned 31 (which was really genuine and earnest, and very much the basis for what I still believe). In seven hours, I’ll be 32 (which I don’t remember just yet). Much like last year, I’m […]
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Foolishness and Dead Horses
Lately, I have been reminded of a quality in myself I’ve tried to let go of: beating dead horses.*As opposed to letting sleeping ponies lie, I’m wont to grab a baseball bat, yell “tally-ho!” and swing as hard as I can on repeat, as though someone has made a gif of me making contact with […]
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