I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
This morning, while riding the train, I found myself surrounded by people shopping on Amazon. Not talking. Not reading. Not scrolling aimlessly through Instagram pretending to be interested in someone’s vacation. Shopping. Amazon Prime Deal Days had apparently turned the train into a mobile shopping mall. I started […]
I was rewatching Season 1 of Slow Horses recently because Season 6 has brought back characters from previous seasons who apparently are Very Important People. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no idea who some of them were. This, by the way, is the problem with streaming television. When a […]
I miss dinner parties. Not the Pinterest dinner parties. Not the perfectly curated tablescape with twelve matching wine glasses and an appetizer that requires a microplane, three reductions and a culinary degree. I mean the old kind. People came over. We ate. We drank. We talked. Sometimes we […]
I have started rewatching House. Because apparently my idea of relaxing television is watching a curmudgeonly, Vicodin-dependent physician insult patients while trying to figure out why someone is mysteriously dying. It was recently ranked among the top 100 television shows of this century, which I completely understand. But […]
The genie grants you a wish. What is it? If I were granted one wish today, I wonder what I would ask for. Years ago, it would have been easy. Money. A certain amount, preferably obscene but not tacky. A house. Maybe true love. Although, honestly, I’m still […]
There are days when I think the bears have figured out life better than we have. Recently, a black bear wandered into an Alaska shopping mall. Yes.A shopping mall. It apparently walked through the automatic doors, stole a peach, pooped on the floor, and left. And honestly? Respect. […]
Do you believe in karma? Perhaps karmadoesn’t arrive with thunder. Perhaps it arrivesin the form of a person. Someone who teases youthe way you once teased someone else. Uses youthe way you once used someone. Wanders awaythe way you once wandered. Withholds the tendernessyou once withheld. Leaves you […]
October may be shaping up to be epic. Five Fridays. FIVE. Five opportunities to sigh dramatically at the end of the workweek and declare, I have survived another one. And five Saturdays! Five glorious little permission slips to sleep, rest, party, wander, do absolutely nothing, or do everything […]
I think I would like a Komodo dragon. Not as a pet, exactly. More as a roommate with its own wing of the house, a very generous food budget, and a legally binding agreement that we do not eat one another. Because look at them. Fierce. Beautiful. Majestic. […]
Do you believe in karma? I believe in karma. Always have. No hesitation. No existential debate. I don’t need to see the cosmic spreadsheet to know somebody is keeping receipts. What we put out into the universe comes back. Sometimes gently.Sometimes loudly.Sometimes with the subtlety of a brick […]
