I learned quickly that boys were very, very fragile. And that the slightest misstep could get me followed, called a cunt, or get a car door slammed on my leg. The Santa Fe shooter’s father has come out with a statement about his son, claiming he’s a victim: “My son, to me, is not a […]
I was afraid, not necessarily of him in particular, but of men in general — of what men do when women disappoint them. When I was in high school, I broke up with a boy who later slit his wrists. After he cut himself, he decided to walk to my house, more than five country […]
We are hard-wired to think that we can change people who don’t love us back. The problem is that life isn’t really like that. There was a time when I was epically bad at dealing with unrequited love. It was my senior year of college and I had a crush on a friend of a […]
The past year has been particularly brutal for parents, a year of dead children. The world is at least/ fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative/estimate, though I keep this from my children./For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird./For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,/ sunk in a lake.—Maggie Smith, […]
Do you have a burning question about pregnancy, modern parenting or family life? Send it to Evie at AskEvieColumn@gmail.com or click here to submit your question anonymously. Dear Evie, I’ve always wanted kids and for the first time, I finally think I’m ready to have them (I’m in a stable relationship and I’m financially secure). Only […]
