Back to back trips to Buy Buy Baby and Babies ‘R Us this week to find an extra tall baby gate to contain my frisky feline had me thinking about babies. I expect that as the marriage count among my friends is continuing to increase, steadily behind it will come the baby count. Eeeek. Babies.
Until [...]
I moved twice during my childhood that I remember. At the time it felt traumatic and then later, for college applications, I was able to spin the experience of moving as “making me flexible” and I began to believe my own story. The year I went to college my parents moved away and I [...]
I made an analogy today in conversation: Being single without prospects for so long kills your sex drive the same way people who are starving stop feeling hunger. It’s like you just stop thinking about intimacy being a part of your life. I guess that’s a self-protective mechanism that keeps us (me? women?) from seeking [...]
I had planned, from the beginning, for a follow-up post to the previous entry, perhaps with some of my goals or ideas for remedying the aforementioned situation. Luckily, an oh-so-helpful reader left the following enlightened comment:
While I certainly can share your dread of the upcoming Valentines Day holiday. I don’t know that I [...]
With the ever-dreaded Valentine’s Day approaching, as well as the one year anniversary of being unceremoniously dumped via google talk on my blackberry at the start of my 8th consecutive overnight shift, I figured it was time to reassess my romantic life, or rather, complete lack there of. First, some statistics about the past [...]
It wears on me. Wears me down. The constant feeling of loneliness. Like I’m a solitary satellite adrift in a sea of people. Like I’m going through the motions but not really living a life. My neurons are hard-wired for connection. For companionship. For that tight bond. A [...]
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When the weather permits, I let my feet take me home instead of the subway. My route of choice is 3.52 miles, which, with average foot traffic and a fair amount of Don’t Walk signs takes a little over an hour. [...]
I haven’t known what to write recently. Every time I try to write anything that seems appropriate, it feels like just another continuation of the facade that I have to put up for the rest of the world, the rest of the time. I want this to be the real me. But [...]
How to Protect a Fragile Heart: A Lesson in Risk Minimization
Maintain a roster of men you chat with online but have no intention or chance of ever meeting in real life
Talk to at least one ex each day
Avoid eye contact with strangers
Go out only with married couples or couples who live together
Come up with [...]
Sometimes I have one, two, three ideas at once. I can’t contain them. I want to post, post, post. In rapid succession. Concrete ideas emerge as phrases while lying in bed, showering, riding the subway. I have to write them down, because I’ve learned they won’t always come back as elegantly as they sounded the [...]