Category

Reading

I hesitate to tell you this story…

By | Reading, Writing

Ask me, there’s a reason God invented currency: place a dollar amount on the table and both parties in a transaction can understand and agree upon the value of the products or services in question. And it doesn’t matter if one person wants book writing services while the other has no interest in growing fucking tomatoes. Two random puzzle pieces do not need to click into place.

Read More

Greeting your husband in Saran Wrap

By | Reading

How did your view on marriage get so skewed, a friend I’d known since college asked me one day. Over the course of her marriage, she’d gained twenty pounds. She’d chucked the date nights, the lingerie, and the cute little skirts. Her husband changed diapers while she ate chips. Saran Wrap, in her house, was strictly to protect leftovers. Content to be herself, she wasn’t even the tinsiest, weensiest bit worried.

Read More

The Daddy Hole

By | Life, Reading

My friend, L, is the most “normal” woman I’ve ever met.  She doesn’t cart around emotional baggage, not even a change purse-full. Her decisions have always seemed so… sensible. I’m…

Read More