I lived and breathed the Paleo lifestyle until the stench of its privilege turned me off. Three years ago, I lost 5% of my body weight following the Paleo Diet. I slept better, I was less gassy, and I just felt happier. I decided to start a blog to track my progress, keep myself accountable, […]
I finally had everything I always wanted. And I was miserable. A candle flickered on my desk, the sun dipping low in the distance, signaling an early end to the daylight hours of a late November day. I looked out, over the top of my computer screen, acutely aware of the fact that a blanket of […]
Adulthood, as it’s taught to us, is a construct, and we can tear it down and reconstruct it ourselves, to make not one other version, but one million others. Earlier today, I was doing some aggressive scheming about how to get to see Taylor Swift in concert. It went something like, “I can’t do that. […]
I was sure that no matter what happened, our son would have everything he’d ever need, even if that didn’t always come from me. “So are you guys getting married?” Not an unusual question for a woman over 30 who’s been dating someone for awhile. I’d been asked this before and understood why they wanted to […]
Why aren’t most women prioritizing their own financial security? I have a confession to make: I am downright scared. It’s another day, which means there is another story about a woman who has to start over financially. And because it’s another day, it means that, not only are innumerable women in the devastating position of having […]
Cooking, especially cooking for others, fills me with a sense of contentment I never found in cognac, cannabis, or couch dances. Writing about cooking, it seems to me, oozes pretension because mixing literary production and food culture so often seems to require further privileging bourgeois modes of living. Without launching into some kind of Marxist […]
When will we all stop criticizing each other online and accept that everyone’s path is different? The buzzing is so loud sometimes. So incredibly loud. Sometimes I wonder if we aren’t all little bees, buzzing away throughout our days, trying to please the queen and not sting anyone. We’re little bees, flying from flower to […]
My life doesn’t look the way that she thought women’s lives should look—no husband, no children, an unkempt house, and a penchant for oversharing on the Internet—but is she proud of me? For a while now, I’ve been writing a eulogy for my grandmother. I don’t know when, or even if, I’ll ever give it. […]
