Ur Doing It Rite

Throes of Creation, Leonid Pasternak

I am one of those neurotic folks who thinks that everyone else was issued a full set of instructions at birth. For everything–friendship, clothes, housekeeping, parenting, business. Mostly I’ve learned to background that assumption, or even forget it for long periods of time. (Iamalways convinced that people I think are cool must have homes that are tidier and cleaner and better organized than mine. Visiting these people is often eye-opening, and yet I kee...