This year, over Lent, I gave up Facebook. For 6 weeks. 46 days to be exact. And it was wonderful. By the time the end rolled around, I…
I am not sure how long my teenager has been smoking, but she smokes. I could live with her smoking some weed, even blacking out from a few…
They say laughter is the best medicine. That’s a good thing because for people like me there’s literally nothing else available. I have something called joint hyper mobility…
You know when you see acquaintances on Facebook posting pictures of grand family adventures, babies strapped snugly to Daddy’s chest as they watch sunsets in far-flung places? You…
If it were possible right now to take our big ol’ Land of Liberty and roll it up, squish it inward and mold it into an actual person,…
I live with a bully I can’t escape. She whispers in my ear–every hour of every day, every month of every year. Here are some of the things…
There is something I need to get off my chest. So, I’m just going to come right out and say it: I’m an atheist. There. I’ve said it.…
Back in high school I had a friend who was a guy. I had a few guy-friends, actually, but one was in love with me. (He thought he…
Like many socially liberal parents in upper-middle-class suburbs, I’ve lost sleep fretting over diversity. Is our hometown diverse enough? Am I scarring my daughter for life by selecting…
I hesitated to write a piece titled “F*cking Persist,” but f*ckng persist with it is what I did. Why? Because the message is too damn necessary to avoid…