The Ex Talk

by Rachel Lynn Solomon

plaid flannel and jeans, the uniform of both lumberjacks and Seattle natives.

“What would a mediocre white man do?” she asks. Ameena and I started saying this years ago, after she had a seminar about diversity in the workplace. Ameena is Indian, and she relayed that women, especially women of color, are statistically less likely to ask for things men don’t think twice about. WWAMWMD, one of us will text the other when we need support.

(Partly cloudy. It is always partly cloudy.)

short people are nothing if not skilled counter climbers.

maybe I’m completely inept at making adult friends.

“It gets above seventy degrees, and suddenly everyone’s smiling.

“But you go into parenting hoping, maybe selfishly, that your kid will love the thing you love, and you can share that with them.”

“I hate that CDs are retro,”