Role Reboot

I Still Need Men To Go To Battle For Me, And It’s Killing Me

It still sucks to be a woman sometimes, in both the most boring and most dangerous of ways. It all started with a light. A light in the hallway of our apartment building in Boston. A light—just a bare bulb, really—that shines through a window into our bedroom where I sleep fitfully most nights even […]

Becoming Three: The Myth Of Instant Family

What I really wanted to write on the birth announcement was, “I love my daughter, but I miss my husband terribly. There is a hole in my heart where our twosome once was. What have we done?” The lie started with the birth announcement: “We are already very much in love.” This was the script; what we were […]