Here’s a thing: it’s actually really quite often, while driving and passing an entrance to a carpool lane, I truly have this conversation with myself in my head: Self: Okay, so I can use the …
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How many am I?
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horn tooting
I am here today to take issue with the phrase ‘don’t toot your own horn.’ Okay so, you have a horn. It’s yours. You’re just standing there with it. SO YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO WAIT AROUND …
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I know not my age
Like most humans, I like to assume that everyone I see and interact with is vastly older or younger than me, so that my own age remains a fixed, untouchable thing, so that I might …
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WE ARE ALL ERIN
Yesterday, barely able to move from the couch, I found myself with no choice but to watch Erin Brockovich in its entirety for the first time ever, and today, because of it, I am fully …
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Courage, or?
As I’ve noted 100 times before, so why not make it a lovely odd 101, I seem to exist in this intellectual in-between space, where I’m always playing devil’s advocate to polarizing ideas. But I …
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french women don’t get fat (?)
I found this book on the floor of Mack’s car, and like most things found in friend’s cars I decided to MAKE IT MINE. Apparently when she was in high school this was THE diet …
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bathwater of choice
A combination of a series of long and draining weeks and it being almost Thanksgiving makes me want to submerge myself in a giant vat of butternut squash soup, and then rest on the warm top …
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LOOK NO FURTHER
Just yesterday, I fretted that I didn’t so much have any new ideas to work on. But the thing with new inspiration is, IT IS A PANTHER IN THE NIGHT. You needn’t find it, it …
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practice makes Cake
Today, on the Cake play is just the gift that keeps on Caking: rehearsals start today for the Cake at Warehouse Theater in Greenville, South Carolina, and in preparation for the role of Della, actor …
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where I stand
Re: the aforementioned photo shoot, yesterday afternoon: I enter the La times photo studio, and immediately clock a beautifully lit white table. Me: ….do you want me like — on the table? Or near it? …