I have lunch duty this semester. This means that I stand in the cafeteria for 40 minutes, 5 days a week and attempt to prevent teenagers from fighting, fucking, vaping and vandalizing. There are anywhere between 3 and 6 members of the faculty and staff at any given point and we are all stationed about […]
Mercury is in retrograde. I don’t know what that means. I mean, I know what it literally means. It means that right now when you look at Mercury through a telescope it looks like it’s orbiting backwards. Or something like that. I don’t know what Mercury being in retrograde means for me and the universe, […]
Let’s talk about the bad days. The kind of days when you feel like you’re living a stranger’s life and you see baby animals everywhere you look and it seems like everyone in the world who has a uterus is pregnant. And then there’s you. Coming to terms with my childless future does not mean […]
The last time I went to Barnes & Noble was the day my husband got his second vaccine. We stopped to peruse on our way home. We ended up walking out of there with just one book, Anthony Bourdain’s final memoir/travel book. There’s a lot in that paragraph. I’m going to break it down. The […]
Empty Oven 