My husband and his mother were standing next to each other the other day, and something in their stances, their proportions: it hit me. “Oh, that’s where he gets that from.” I see this in my own family, in babies. That six-month-old has her father’s eyes, my sister has my mother’s mouth, another sister has…
Welcome to British Columbia Domestic violence as a precusor to mass shootings. The link is strong. On marital weight gain: “Forget the “Fasting Diet.” It sounds like the “Maybe We Should Constantly Be Threatening Each Other With Divorce Diet” really does the trick.” Made me laugh: when your dad decides enough, it’s time for you…
Yesterday, I read a story by Junot Diaz in the New Yorker – the line: “The half-life of love is forever” caught me. Beautiful, right? It made me think about how grief lingers, what it’s like to lose your lover, or someone else. How years later, it’s still with you. The story was also published in…
Earlier tonight, a song I liked came on the radio while I parked the car. I sat and listened until it finished. That doesn’t happen to me very often, but when it does, I think it’s one of life’s great pleasures – when you can sit alone somewhere and listen to a whole song, in…
Recently, I wrote about entitlement and self esteem. I didn’t write about the dark side of entitlement. Brock Turner. That’s the kind of entitlement where you use other people for your own kicks. Where you don’t even bother to consider the people around you, nor think of treating them with even basic respect. Except I…
When I first saw images of The Gates (more than 10 years ago?! I can’t believe it!), I thought: “Wow, that is beautiful.” Last night, seeing The Floating Piers, I thought: “God, can we fly to Italy? Can we go there, today?” (This was, of course, after thinking: “Wow”.) We can’t – it’s not in the…
How Barack Obama got through this without cracking a smile, I do not know. So cool! Ooh! Like ice. Could you have done it without cracking? Are you cool?
In light of Gawker’s bankruptcy, I read an old New Yorker profile of Peter Thiel. This stuck out: Thiel believes that education is the next bubble in the U.S. economy. He has compared university administrators to subprime-mortgage brokers, and called debt-saddled graduates the last indentured workers in the developed world, unable to free themselves even…
Friends, I’m going to share this with you because you’ve been good, very good. You keep coming and reading my thoughts on all sorts of serious, ugly things. This is not ugly – not at all. I know you’re thinking: you already know what time of year June is. June is the start of summer,…
On a recent episode of The Mindy Project, Jody (one of the characters) tells Mindy that he doesn’t think of her as being Indian: “Honestly, I think of you as a white man, largely because of your entitlement.” I laughed, then gasped. Eureka!: “Oh God, I have that entitlement! That’s it!” You guys, this explains…
