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    Since Becoming a Mom I've Received a Number of Items–
    • May 4
    • 2 min

    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...
    A Cherry Pie of One's Own
    • Mar 22
    • 6 min

    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...
    Ekphrasis #1: Chained Housewife, or Just Trying to Relax?
    • Mar 1
    • 2 min

    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...
    Mothers, Friends, and Outcasts: A Tale of Shoplifting in the '90s
    • Aug 24, 2021
    • 9 min

    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...
    Motherhood is Great and Everything is Great and I'm Great!
    • Jul 12, 2021
    • 7 min

    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...
    A Sad Person Who's Always Writing a Novel
    • Jun 26, 2021
    • 3 min

    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...
    My old boyfriends never would have loved my Keith Richards haircut
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 5 min

    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,...
    Pre-teen hair metal love
    • Oct 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    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...
    Dread Version July 26, 2019
    • Jul 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
    Writing N' Me
    • Jul 9, 2019
    • 4 min

    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,...
    Dylan in the Sky
    • Mar 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    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...
    Very important writings on Beverly Hills, 90210
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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