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...

"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,...

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...

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...

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...

My kiddo got her ears pierced this year, shortly before she turned eight. While that happened, this was and is happening: my face slowly...

– mugs, dishtowels, socks– featuring women in capes, in masks, flying through the air like wonder. Mom is super, they insist. Thanks but...

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...

"Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding." ― Diane Arbus An image I often evoke when...

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...

"Are we doing something wrong?" my husband asked me. We were hanging in our friends' backyard, where we came to celebrate the loss of...

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...

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,...

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...

Feeling it big time this morning, The Dread like an amorphous pile of bleck, seeping through my edges. Fridays are supposed to be my...

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,...

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...

When Brandon met Dylan, Season 1, Episode 2 Brandon met Dylan** in a school computer lab, obviously. So Brian Austin Greene's dorky...