I first heard the phrase “A stitch in time saves nine” from the book by that name by Madeleine L’Engle, so it’s no wonder I assumed it had an esoteric and possibly magical meaning. I remember asking someone to explain it to me — my older sister? My mother? It Read more…
There are topics you can’t help but return to, to grind your mind against day and night like a worry stone. At what point are you annoying not just yourself but your audience? I think this as a friend wryly tells me I don’t have “range” that I have “never Read more…
I saw an article going around about how some one submitted a published New Yorker story to several magazines, including the New Yorker, and it got rejected by all of them. I didn’t read the article, I don’t have to. This is an experiment I’ve heard about many times in Read more…
I’m starting to wonder if my culture has turned a vice into a virtue. We are inundated constantly by the industries that profit off of vanity. Imaginary new “problems” are invented for perfect people – do you have thigh gap? Are your teeth white enough? Are your eyebrows the right Read more…
I am oddly proud of this click-bait-y headline, but I won’t bury the lede: It’s chores. Wait, wait, here me out! This is something I have stringently tested, a hypothesis I wanted to prove wrong, desperately, so I have done my due diligence, and the conclusion keeps repeating as valid: Read more…
In 2001, I saw the movie “AI” which was about a robot that was designed to fall in love with a human. The little robot boy bonds to his “mother” and then goes on an adventure which includes a magnificent Jude Law as a gigolo robot and… that’s not the Read more…
This year, for the first time, a convention I hadn’t been to INVITED ME TO COME. And after I said yes, asked if I was okay being a SPECIAL GUEST. This is… amazing. Stuff I never thought would happen! They WANTED ME? The gal with no agent, only small press Read more…