What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding

by Kristin Newman

And I began to need my trips like other people need religion.

Stories I couldn’t have contributed just a few years earlier. A lot of them. Like, maybe enough already. Remember when Robin went to Argentina and brought back a hot Argentine on How I Met Your Mother? That’s a trip paying for itself.

Divorces were becoming less important, deaths less tragic and more a part of life, ideas for “what’s next” springing up with each step. My “tragedy” felt much less like a tragedy in the face of these real tragedies, and more like what it was: a really lucky experience that just didn’t last forever.

There is a tattoo parlor next to the Church of the Nativity, which houses THE manger.