Men are the freight train comin’ at ya.Women are the poison in your food… I’m a guy’s girl, meaning I’ve spent most of my life hanging out with men instead of women. The freight train comin’ at ya, I prefer men’s straightforward nature, their directness, their unwavering, solution-oriented trajectory. Men are simpler than women. Not less intelligent, just … Continue reading What Makes a Great Man
On our drive from school the other day my tweenage son told me a classmate had offered him a joint. I’d been preparing for this moment, staging it in my head for years, ready with my bag full of allegorical stories of my reckless youth before easing into the “Why drugs are bad for you” … Continue reading Grand Fu*k*ng Cyn
A journal entry to my 7-year-old daughter on the nature of women and men… I have this lump in my throat as I write this. I want to cry, for the ‘Thousand Slights’ you’ll suffer, my baby. I want to shield you from that pain. But I can’t. And it makes me feel helpless and hopeless and … Continue reading A Thousand Slights
Got Covid again last month. Second time, close to a year after my first go-round with it. I’m fully vaxed. Workout 5 miles a day, 5 days a week. No underlying medical conditions. Low-risk age group. I got Covid the first time at a karaoke bar when the person sitting next to me literally spit … Continue reading On Medicine Today
“You are so beautiful, my baby. Once you slim down boys will notice and you’ll get as many dates as you want,” my mother promised me in her kitchen when I was 16, her response to my crying to her how lonely I felt with no one asking me out. “I guarantee you, you’ll have your pick … Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth About Men and Women
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My father is a fervent Republican. My mother was a Democrat. I once saw him put his fist through the maple cabinet an inch from my mother’s head because her vote was going to cancel his in the second Reagan election. Though he never hit her, connected anyway, he often shouted, slammed things, threw things, … Continue reading Believing is NOT Thinking
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My daughter, a college senior, told me yesterday that she joined the Palestinian protest on campus. “I believe that genocide is wrong, Mom. So, I stood up for what I believe.” I think she expected me to be proud of her, but her words made my skin crawl. My daughter knows nothing of the history … Continue reading The Fallacy of Palestinian Protests
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