Writing
Cheaper to Replace
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 Read more…
Blathering
The Secret to Happiness We All Vehemently Avoid
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 Read more…
Blathering
Vanity in America
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? Read more…
Writing
Award Winning Story Rejected By Its Publisher
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. Read more…
Writing
Obsessions
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 Read more…
Blathering
A Stitch in Time
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 Read more…
Life
So What’s it Like to Lose a Major Award?
Well, first off, it isn’t losing. It’s not. It’s more… not-winning, but that doesn’t make a catchy blog post title. We Americans tend to reduce things like literary awards (and -ugh- political elections) to the binary lens of sports, with Read more…