May 42 minSince 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 226 minA Cherry Pie of One's OwnPhoto 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 12 minEkphrasis #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 minMothers, Friends, and Outcasts: A Tale of Shoplifting in the '90sIn 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 minMotherhood 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 minA Sad Person Who's Always Writing a NovelHey, 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 minMy old boyfriends never would have loved my Keith Richards haircutPatti 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 minPre-teen hair metal loveOnce 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 minDread Version July 26, 2019Feeling 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 minWriting N' MeSo 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 minDylan 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 minVery important writings on Beverly Hills, 90210When Brandon met Dylan, Season 1, Episode 2 Brandon met Dylan** in a school computer lab, obviously. So Brian Austin Greene's dorky...