The Heart Wants What it Wants
This week I quietly finished a complete draft of my novel. Writing a novel is a series of micro-edits, millions of tiny decisions. I made...
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Mar 12 min read
Don't Pound on Locked Doors
"Don't pound on locked doors." -My horoscope today. Hi. It's March! Which means by the end of this month, we've completed Quarter 1. Q1,...
Aug 18, 20236 min read
How I Stopped Worrying So Much
Do you identify as a worrier? Recently, it was 90 plus degrees outside. Naturally when I got in the car, it was really hot. I rolled down...
Apr 11, 20237 min read
On Being With a Person When it's Hard to Be With a Person
On a scale of fight or flight, I'm a solid flight with the occasional surge of fight. In my baseline state I'm conflict-avoidant, which...
Jan 25, 20235 min read
Horror Flix, Neighborhood Kids, & Kojak: A Tale of Love & Fear in the 80s
When I was a kid, a young, bald white man used to pace the alley behind my house while holding a butcher knife up against his chest. He...
Nov 24, 20223 min read
I'm Not Wearing Earrings Today
My kiddo got her ears pierced this year, shortly before she turned eight. While that happened, this was and is happening: my face slowly...
May 4, 20222 min read
Since Becoming a Mom I've Received a Number of Items–
– mugs, dishtowels, socks– featuring women in capes, in masks, flying through the air like wonder. Mom is super, they insist. Thanks but...
Mar 22, 20226 min read
A Cherry Pie of One's Own
Photo courtesy of Bobbie Brown At ten years old, I was obsessed with hair metal and the men who made it. Posters of bands with naughty...
Mar 1, 20222 min read
Ekphrasis #1: Chained Housewife, or Just Trying to Relax?
"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." ― Diane Arbus An image I often evoke when...
Aug 24, 20219 min read
Mothers, Friends, and Outcasts: A Tale of Shoplifting in the '90s
In high school, you probably knew a girl like Julie K. The girl whose name, when uttered in company that didn't include her, sounded like...
Jul 12, 20217 min read
Motherhood is Great and Everything is Great and I'm Great!
"Are we doing something wrong?" my husband asked me. We were hanging in our friends' backyard, where we came to celebrate the loss of...
Jun 26, 20213 min read
A Sad Person Who's Always Writing a Novel
Hey, Lara-- What's up? Funny how life goes, huh? You think you get to a better place in your head, and then the shit comes flooding in...
Dec 8, 20205 min read
My old boyfriends never would have loved my Keith Richards haircut
Patti by Robert I finished Patti Smith's Just Kids. Sigh. All she and Robert wanted was Art. They starved for it, took odd jobs for it,...
Oct 14, 20204 min read
Pre-teen hair metal love
Once upon a time, I was in love with GN'R. Like, serious I-want-to-have-your-baby kind of love, except I was ten years old and not...
Jul 26, 20192 min read
Dread Version July 26, 2019
Feeling it big time this morning, The Dread like an amorphous pile of bleck, seeping through my edges. Fridays are supposed to be my...
Jul 9, 20194 min read
Writing N' Me
So what happened was, I wrote a book. And I self-published it, because I didn't want to go through potentially years of rejection. Hello,...
Mar 12, 20192 min read
Dylan in the Sky
Luke Perry died last week and I'm so sad. His death makes me waaay more sad than the average celebrity death. And not just because he was...
Jan 8, 20193 min read
Very important writings on Beverly Hills, 90210
When Brandon met Dylan, Season 1, Episode 2 Brandon met Dylan** in a school computer lab, obviously. So Brian Austin Greene's dorky...
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