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An Open Letter to Good Guys

Hi guys. Women here. We wanted you to know that we need you and it’s not you that we mean when we talk about how some guys are jerks. Just in case there was any misunderstanding. Being a woman is awesome. (I’m sure you like being a guy too). But sometimes it can be a […]

Cooking and the root of the matter

Since I discovered this spring that I’ve developed a gluten sensitivity, I’ve taken my usual approach to the issue: death by a thousand Google searches. My insatiable need to know everything about everything glutenalia has taken me to pages about medical research, herbs, farming practices, paleo diets and vitamin D production. Recently, it’s taken me […]

The Primer

This is sort of how I’m feeling tonight. I am so tired of enduring silence. There’s actually no reason for me to. Here’s a poem by Christina Davis that perfectly encapsulates how I’m feeling: She said, I love you. He said, Nothing. (As if there were just one of each word and the one who […]

Great time at “Meet the Artists”

Wonderful afternoon of hanging out in my great little town. One of the reasons I love love love living here is that it’s a place that celebrates the arts. Tonight I was fortunate enough to have been asked to read at our Meet the Artists reception. Not only did I get to chat with all […]

Asunder

Once I Built illusions as the sparrows fly Let myself dream of last frog kisses With a brightening eye Then I Felt the bruising crank of time Grated against the indifference Of your goodbye Now you Breeze in, like nothing ever went awry Amnesia smiles, silence and distance And push against my why So I […]

Truck nuts

This morning as I was driving my children to school, I spotted a pickup trucks with what are commonly called “truck nuts,” a pair of anatomically correct testicles. (Or as anatomically correct as shiny silver things can be). I’d heard of them before but had never actually seen a pair. I live in a nice, […]

Hispanic Heritage Month

Here’s a piece I wrote for Bookish about Hispanic Heritage Month. Click here.

Mortality

Among my more inexplicable decisions of late, I decided to bring Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality along on a six-hour plane ride yesterday. If you haven’t read it, it’s a series of essays he published after his diagnosis with esophageal cancer. I’d read the first, “The Topic of Cancer,” in Vanity Fair when it was first published. […]

Another dispatch from 30,000 feet

I have been prolific on this flight. I’ve written an essay that was due today, I’ve read a book about mortality (note to you: don’t read it on a plane) and written a post about it and finished a spreadsheet for work. I’m still wired, so I’m loading up on posts for the week since […]

Thank you, Lit Crawl

Saturday night I hung out with 100+ of my best friends at the inimitable St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village in NYC. I was fortunate enough to get invited to be on a panel during Lit Crawl. I had a great time talking about the book publishing process and then hanging around answering questions. […]