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...
Lara Levitan
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...