My new favorite thing is when your phone is recording a voice memo and you don’t know it and the product is a gorgeous, absurdist monologue that contains little pieces of your life. Buried in …
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voice to text
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hell is other people at a matinee
Dropping their phones, crawling on the floor searching for them, letting them ring, shuffling for their candies and programs and gums, treating it all like Netflix, leaving to pee in the middle of a quiet …
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this is for you
Dear Girl who sat across the aisle from me at the Notebook preview last night, who spent act one sobbing, then laughing, then sobbing, chugging red wine, shouting YES at moments you knew, whispering secrets …
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Iron woman
Did you know that most women are iron deficient? I of course only know this because my sister Blaine is a wellness coach. We are taught that men eat steaks and women eat what, Luna …
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together
These two have uprooted their lives for a few weeks to be with me in Chicago so I can sneak moments with them and hear Joe shriek for his waffle in the morning. It hasn’t …
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I am my own critic
We are now a mere DAYS away from inviting humans into see the Notebook. There are moments when it feels perfect and cathartic and I want to cry because of how much all the years …
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to all the young women
For the last month and some change, I’ve been staying at corporate apartments in buildings in Chicago that are filled with literal Young Urban Professionals. Their gyms are teeming with young beautiful women and I …
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california kings
If you want to deepen, or challenge, or end? your marriage, temporarily switch from a California King bed to a Double. Bodies basically stacked on top of each other like towels, vacillate between THIS IS …
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Have toddler will travel
DO: tell him every day for approximately 2 months that soon he will be going on an airplane so that he’s emotionally and physically prepared for everything that is to come DON’T: In tizzy of …
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Order in the Kitchen
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s the patriarchy? Probably because I have a very good Mother? But I can’t start the day, or go to sleep, with a messy kitchen. I need everything in …