If you think people project things onto you now, why would a wedding ring stop them? Women are carpet-bombed with the idea that marriage is their happy ending from their first viewing of Cinderella to the last potboiler Rom Com they saw starring Sarah Jessica Jennifer Kate Meg Julia Whatsherhair. Marriage is also ever-present in […]
Some of us choose not to have children—and for good reason. It’s been about 10 years since anyone asked me, “Why don’t you have kids?” “Just lucky, I guess,” was my response then (it was a kid who asked me), and my friends and colleagues just know it’s a non-issue, like you wouldn’t ask Woody Allen […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Making a bucket list can make you feel kind of lousy if you can barely afford a bucket. “You’re never gonna climb a mountain.” When I heard that phrase on the TV show Desperate Housewives I was taken aback by its sting. The context was a couple cleaning […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. These are a few bits of hard-won wisdom I wouldn’t mind shouting out to my past self. “Strange things are afoot at the Circle K…” Points if you recognize that line from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, which gave the world many things including a young Keanu Reeves. […]
