Things I Learned About Love This Year

Me in my kitchen, rocking my birthday dress and a bowl of curried chickpeas and tomatoes, one of many dishes that I prepared for my birthday party this weekend. See more twitpics taken by Debauched Diva here. Lots of other pictures (some embarrassing) were taken too, and will probably be appearing on the internet sometime soon.

Last summer and fall, I went through an epic heartbreak. The kind that had me crying randomly in public. The kind that made it impossible for me to get out of bed some d