Jul 25, 2017
How to Prepare for an Emotional Disaster: A Comic
Keep a notebook of all the ways things could go wrong so as to curb expectations.
Keep a notebook of all the ways things could go wrong so as to curb expectations.
I have never been anything but this ragged, medicated self; I have never been less aware of the ground beneath my feet.
What makes one rebellion just and the next unjust?
It’s not about getting away with things. It’s about becoming more comfortable with myself.
Johnston’s instrumental arrangements and shrill vocal style satisfied a primitive urge in me.
“My former home office, with its glorious door separating it from our bedroom, is now our son’s domain.”
For me there is always the question, “Did I offend?”
“Horror isn’t in the gothic and ghostly, but in the people we’re taught to love. Horror is close to home.”
The nature or “West cure” was developed in the nineteenth century to treat men with anxiety. Women were sent to bed.
How rewatching ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ shed new light on a lost year of my life.
“We didn’t know that where we came from, we named like praying.”
“When you’ve spent all your life smothering your contradictions, their eruption can undo you.”
On ‘The Big Sick,’ dating, arranged marriage, and the hard-to-break scripts we use when communicating about love.
“Women writers throughout history not only accepted transience through amorous affairs, but delighted in them.”
“When the missionaries came with their Good News, they also declared that what we’d had before was bad.”
“The women I admire most are artist-mothers, who are able to create with pleasure and abandon.”
“In the emergency room, my instincts exploded from protective to full-blown primal. And it felt like love.”
“My parents had a shared language I didn’t understand, messes I couldn’t always be there to tidy.”
Magic deserves to be regarded as a high art, right alongside poetry, right alongside theatre.
