I first thought of the idea for this post two years ago during the holiday season, as that's often when those of us without parents feel it the most. But, truthfully, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of them. And what no one tells you about grief is that it's … Continue reading What It’s Like To Live Without Parents
10 months ago, I wrote a post entitled How to Get Productive When You Feel Shitty. Little did any of us know that life was about to get a lot shittier for everyone. What were we worried about back in January, 2020? Well, for one thing, I personally didn't speak so much in first person … Continue reading How to Get (or Stay) Productive When You Feel Shitty, Covid edition
If you are in the can't-get-off-the-couch stage of feeling shitty, I suggest you first read another post of mine: How To Feel A Little Less Shitty Today. [If you want to read an updated version of this post, I suggest How to Get (or Stay) Productive When You Feel Shitty, Covid edition] Welcome! Perhaps you've … Continue reading How To Get Productive When You Feel Shitty
In "Poker Nation", the author Andy Bellin says that poker players rarely remember a good hand but always recall with visceral detail their bad beats: the time their full house lost to quads or their quads lost to a straight flush. If you're not familiar with poker, these are very very unlikely hands to get … Continue reading Why We Remember The Bad Beats
Welcome! You've no doubt found this post because you are feeling shitty. Come on in. Sit down. Have a cup of coffee or tea. We're all friends here. You don't have to smile. Or pretend to not feel shitty. We've all been there, or at least I certainly have. In fact, I'm feeling a bit … Continue reading How To Feel A Little Less Shitty Today
As any New Yorker knows, the MTA is trying to kill us. Not literally kill us--not yet--but rather murder us via boredom and bureaucracy. You would think they would want fewer people throwing themselves into the tracks, but then they make the D run on the F line and the F run on the D … Continue reading On Being A Good Person
Just before my third year of teaching began, I had a visceral dream. As with all nightmares, when I describe it, it seems like a quaint anxiety dream. But the unconscious doesn't know it's dreaming. For those minutes (hours?) and the minutes after it woke me up, my chest pounded as if it were real. … Continue reading The Dragon at School
My guess is some of you looked at the word above and thought, "Huh, it makes sense for the spelling to change over time based on the phonetic similarity between "f" and "ph."* It's kind of beautiful how language evolves; just as English has grown and changed since Shakespeare's time, future English speakers will likely … Continue reading Word Poll #1!
Tonight, I watched The Terminator. (I’m going to suppose that those of you who have not watched the film that originated “I’ll be back” are googling it right now.) I have always preferred T2 in which Sarah Connor is a freakin’ hero who, among other things, [spoiler alert] escapes from a mental institution run by … Continue reading On Being a Badass Woman
Driving at night in the fog 