I’ve been thinking about passion. Not the Instagram version of passion. Not “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” because honestly, whoever invented that sentence has never had a mortgage. I mean actual passion. That strange, consuming feeling when something or someone […]
I was thinking today about how strange it is that we spend approximately 90% of our lives looking for things we personally put somewhere. Keys. Glasses. Phone. The phone we are currently holding while looking for the phone. And then there are the things we lose emotionally. Our […]
Every now and then I think about a rather inconvenient truth. Some of the people you are exhausting yourself trying to impress probably won’t be at your funeral. And I don’t mean that literally. Some will, perhaps. They’ll stand there, say something lovely, and tell everyone what a […]
There is a sunflower growing along my walking path to work in the Bronx. Not in a garden. Not in some carefully curated patch of soil. No. This sunflower has apparently decided that a tiny crack in the middle of a concrete sidewalk is an entirely reasonable place […]
For some people, the truth is not a fixed point. It’s a moving target. Today it’s over here. Tomorrow it’s somewhere across town. By Thursday, apparently, it was never there at all. And if you happen to live, work, love, or otherwise orbit someone with this particular relationship […]
Which fictional world would be the most fun to vacation in? If you could live in any fictional world, most people immediately say Harry Potter. And I get it. The moving staircases. The secret shops. The butterbeer. The fact that an owl can apparently handle the postal system […]
If you could go back and witness any historical event, which one would you pick? If I could go back and witness any moment in history, I initially thought I should choose something suitably Important. A presidential inauguration. A great military victory. The signing of some document that […]
I miss being obsessed with a TV show. Not “Oh, I watched a few episodes while folding laundry” obsessed. I mean obsessed. Lost. Breaking Bad. The Walking Dead. The kind of obsessed where an episode ended and you immediately needed to discuss it with another human being, preferably […]
If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would it be and why? If I were ever to get a tattoo, it would be a crow. Crows are mischievous, smart, mysterious, a little weird, and chronically misunderstood. Honestly, I relate. But I will probably never get […]
The Hayden Panettiere death hurts. I think because she was one of those faces we watched grow up. The cheerleader on Heroes who needed saving and somehow became the one who could save the world. Then Juliette Barnes on Nashville: hot-tempered, complicated, enormously talented, singing her way through […]
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