Getting a Handle on My Handwriting for 04/15/2014
I jot little notes to myself throughout the day: ideas for things to write about or guests to book on my podcast, items to pick up from the store, bills to pay or people I need to respond to on email,...
View ArticleI Am One of Three Sizes for 04/22/2014
I have a tiny role in an upcoming movie and as part of the preparation, a very nice woman from the wardrobe department called me to ask for my sizes. "Uhhh," I stammered, as various numbers swam around...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean to Feel Married? for 04/29/2014
I've now been married for about six weeks, and I'm beginning to have this creeping suspicion that being married doesn't really feel all that different than not being married. Not that I got married to...
View ArticleSpoiler Alert! No Spoilers. for 05/06/2014
I'm going to talk about television now, but I'm not going to be revealing any spoilers. Don't turn the page or close the computer tab or yell, "Shut up!" to the manservant you've hired to read these...
View ArticleI Need to Sit in All the Seats for 05/20/2014
The first thing I do when I check into a hotel room is call downstairs to ask for something better. I wish I weren't this way. I wish I were the kind of person who dumped my suitcase on the bed, gazed...
View ArticleI Stayed Out From 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. for 06/03/2014
My husband and I recently did something we hardly ever do: We left our apartment. I don't mean to suggest we never leave. We frequently go to work and the grocery store, and when we're feeling like...
View ArticleA Bug Flew Into My Face for 06/10/2014
I recently had the unforgettable experience of feeling a bug fly into my face but not feeling it fly away from my face. You don't realize how dependent you are on hearing a bug's exit route, on feeling...
View ArticleOn Second Thought, I Won't Go to Prison for 06/17/2014
Having now finished the second season of Netflix hit "Orange Is the New Black" (which I didn't intend to watch so fast; I wanted to spread it out, but one minute I was starting and the next I was...
View ArticleRaining on My Own Parade for 06/24/2014
Alison Rosen is off this week. The following is a column by Will E Sanders.I don't like umbrellas and I don't use umbrellas. I'll take it another step further. I don't like or trust people that use or...
View ArticleThings No One Told Me About Sex and Credit Cards for 07/01/2014
I spend 40 percent of my adult life saying, "What? Why didn't anyone ever tell me that?" The topics vary from the importance of having a credit card with a rewards program (I just now got clued into...
View ArticleHow Do You Bathe? for 07/08/2014
Showering is one of those things you probably do every day without giving it much thought. And if you're like me, you likely assume most everyone showers in roughly the same fashion — get in, wash your...
View ArticleApparently My Lady Business Is None of My Business for 07/15/2014
An annoying and frustrating thing just happened — the kind of annoying and frustrating thing that as a kid I didn't think would still be happening well into my adulthood: I allowed myself to be pushed...
View ArticleThe Bully Organ for 07/29/2014
I recently wrote about receiving an alarming voicemail from my doctor — the one my husband and I are seeing because we want to have a baby, and apparently I have a useless sack of rocks where my uterus...
View ArticleTurns Out I Also Don't Like Shots for 08/05/2014
When you visit a reproductive endocrinologist because you want to have a baby and can't, because nature is cruel and only allows teenagers and drug addicts to get pregnant, one of the first things they...
View ArticleBroken for 09/02/2014
One of the most disappointing things I've learned about life is that the cliche "whenever you go, there you are" is true. Over the years, I've found myself heartbroken in a variety of locations from...
View ArticleI've Had It Up to Here with These Heroic Sex Pioneers for 09/09/2014
"Masters of Sex" is a show I watch even though I spend most of the program rolling my eyes, yelling, "Oh, come on!" at the screen, or yelling at my husband about what I just yelled at on the screen, or...
View ArticleI Wore the Wrong Thing to a Funeral for 09/16/2014
As someone who often wears black, I felt pretty set in the apparel department when I made plans to attend an upcoming funeral. At the very least, I figured, I wouldn't have to worry about what to wear....
View ArticleI Had Surgery and I Miss the Drugs for 09/23/2014
I had surgery last week to remove fibroids from my uterus — a fairly common procedure — and discovered two things. One, I didn't have fibroids. And two, I can see the appeal of drug addiction. I've...
View ArticleGratitude for 10/07/2014
Gratitude is a word you hear bandied about quite a bit, and for good reason, I suppose. I mean, I get that it would be good to be grateful for all you have instead of bitter about all you don't;...
View ArticleI Sometimes Have My Period and Other Things I Shouldn't Tell You for 04/08/2014
I've been thinking a lot lately about the urge to be open and transparent versus the urge to hide and protect. I'm someone who believes the way out of uncomfortable feelings — or rather, one of the...
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