The temperature in LA has dipped drastically below 80, by which I mean, right now it’s 75, so last night I slept with the heat on for the whole night, beneath my great-grandmother’s blanket, dreamt …
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Seasonal Sweatshirts (?)
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Socrates.
Today on If I Could Turn back Time: Socrates. I don’t mean like I want to bounce back 24 hundred years, grab a toga and hang out / feed each other grapes. I mean high …
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WAIT: WHAT?
My subconscious has something strange and important to say to me. Lately it has been shouting at my through my dreams. Night before last, I was a dolphin, racing through the water to catch a …
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Yazidis
Today, on The Whole World, I’ve been reading about The Yazidis, a small group of Kurds who live mostly in the Northern part of Iraq (the biblical Nineveh), who are currently being persecuted by ISIS, …
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HIATUS LUNCH!
My most wonderful co-worker Henry and I had lunch yesterday at the Ace Hotel — which is so hip the valet guy had a twirly mustache — since, you know, we are on hiatus and …
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forgiveness
After I finished grad school, after three years of taking out the maximum federal and private loans for tuition and NYC living and the occasional disposable dress at H&M, I finally read the fine print, …
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this is what You mean to me
I don’t really know who ‘you’ is. I think I mean my blog, but also all of You. Who are you? Hi. This, weekend, I was here: Palm Springs desert beauty, for my friend’s 30th …
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conversation with printer
Me: Print. Printer:…………… Me:….Print? Printer: No. Me:…..okay…..why not? Printer: you never use me and now you think you can just like, use me, because you’ve decided for once that you need paper? It’s like I’m …
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Today, I am not Me
My boss told me that today, in the room, since everyone higher up than me is covering set, runnin’ round, doing various writerly tasks, I’m Alexander Haig (Reagan’s first Secretary of State, she also informed …
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where I go when I go there
50% of the time, when my brain idles or goes to sleep — or whichever Brain as Computer or Car metaphor suits your fancy — I go to this parking lot outside of this grocery …