A good woman is like a good book: entertaining, inspiring, and instructive; sometimes a bit too wordy, but when properly bound and decorated, irresistible.
-Marcus Long » Read more
Feeling Damn Good
At the gas station, I successfully troubleshot a frozen fuel door release by sawing around the fuel door with my key McGyver style, popping that sucker the heck open, all while rocking stilettos in 0-degree weather. Twelve-year-old me would be terribly impressed. » Read more
What They Don’t Tell You About Dating an Abused Person
“Would you be okay with dating someone who was abused?”
“Of course,” most people answer without hesitation. “I’m not going to hold that against them. Why would I?”
Except it’s not about stigma. It’s not about the fact that somehow something bad that happened to a person may have ostensibly “tainted” them, » Read more
Today, in Miserable Inventions
I hate ringback tones with the passion of a thousand fiery suns.
I mean, c’mon, do I REALLY need hold music for the part where the call is RINGING? FFS.
Who woke up one morning and thought ringtones + hold music = win? They’re probably rich now, but I hate them. » Read more
Not So Fast
I feel heroic when I fast. Maybe it brings out the hunter/gatherer in me. Maybe it’s the challenge. I’m sure part of it is subversive. I like showing food whose boss – and proving to myself I don’t need it every day, all day. Asserting my independence, if you will. Fasting it toughest at work. » Read more
Flossing
<The yin and yang of adulthood violently collided this morning as I flossed with a terrible hangover.
<It had been a fantastic evening – at least what I could remember of it. A disconcerting number of fragments were missing like a mirror that had slipped from its mounting and unceremoniously crashed to the floor. » Read more
Old is New Again
When I was in grade school, I was friends with a group of the shyest girls at school. My best friend was the soft-spoken daughter of two zoology professors, and when she got headgear, the bullies descended on her with a fury. Looking back, I’m amazed that my reaction as an 8-year-old was to attack the bullies relentlessly, » Read more
Not Even Elon Musk
Every day, every way, it dawns on me more and more that no one is as good as my parents expected me to be. » Read more
Mona Lisa
It’s fun to puzzle people. I take this as a sign of progress. I used to feel ashamed when people would point out that things I was doing were different, even if they said it in a relatively nice way (“you’re really interesting,” “I never know what you’re going to say next,” etc), but nowadays it’s amusing. » Read more
How We Roll
Me: So I read about this book called Mating in Captivity. One of its basic premises is fascinating. Basically, in relationships there are competing needs of safety and security versus variety and novelty, which produces an inherent conflict that needs to be dealt with, one way or another.
Skyspook: That’s not just relationships, » Read more