How does one ever recover from the mirrors in Lulu Lemon dressing room? The triplicate ones, in extremely close quarters, that show not only your hair’s split ends but also every weird detail of your posture and the strange way … Continue reading How to Survive the Lulu Lemon Dressing Room Mirror
Who are your people, the ones you feel most seen by, the ones that give you strength and inspiration? Continue reading On Benefactors and Portals
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Don’t wander into your husband’s office weeks before your birthday and discover printouts of longhaired dachshunds on his desk. It’s supposed to be a surprise. Make … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Longhaired Dachshunds: A User’s Manual
For Christmas, I gave my 13-year-old daughter a pair of glasses that look like something Alice found in Wonderland. They’re Sweet Tart pink, washed in iridescence, … Continue reading The Glasses
I have a set of necessary essentials for a city: it has to have a good bakery, good coffee, a bookstore, and a good place to exercise. Bakery … Continue reading Quiche Cluster
I could do that….Yeah, but you didn’t! Continue reading Agnes Martin’s Retrospective at the Guggenheim, December, 2016
Angel dust. I was ten when I heard these words spoken by my mother, under her breath, in that scary tone she used to reference something … Continue reading Angel Dust
I don’t want to put away my white jeans. It’s still too miserable outside for faux fur jackets or anything black. In San Antonio, the heat … Continue reading Listening for the Lotus
We’re driving my older daughter’s car from Texas to New York, packed with everything that she and her sister need for their freshman and sophmore years at … Continue reading Road Trip Wisdom