I think every generation has some specific environmental catastrophe awareness hammered into them in elementary school, and for mine, it was how you have to cut the little plastic rings that come around soda cans, …
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the mouth
My shared workspace has gone maskless for the vaccinated and all of the sudden everyones mouths are out and they feel private and aggressive and wrong and strange. I go to the bathroom and turn …
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people don’t change
I wrote a short play at some point in grad school or after grad school called People Don’t Change, they just Change their Hair and I think about it every time I decide to change …
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Number Bun
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do you guys want more
One of the many things I learned from our years of trying to have Joe is to never ask anyone if they’re thinking of having kids, or thinking of having more kids, and to instead …
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Carolina Pie
Do you have to leave a place to realize you were a part of it? I didn’t truly feel like I was FROM North Carolina until I left for grad school in New York. Growing …
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Alone
Today, on the Many reasons why I love my Husband, I got home the other night to find Morrison watching TV, Alone. I joined him. Me: what’s this? Morrison: It’s this show where people have …
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Alison
Now that it’s Deadline official, which is Hollywood for Real, I can now pay tribute here to Alison Greenspan, an executive who passed away Monday after a long battle with Cancer. She was only 48 …
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we don’t know
I can’t stop thinking about how the poor people in the Surfside building were at least probably asleep when its walls shook them down further into their dreams. And this morning, while literally completing work …
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More
I’ve listened to enough Terry Gross Fresh Air interviews to have a pretty sturdy fantasy in which I go on the show and Terry asks me her thoughtful, direct, unearthing and sometimes awkward questions. The …