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It’s one of those days where I’ve had too much caffeine.
Sep 8, 2023 • 
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Confessions of a Restaurant Hostess
Barcelona Wine Bar always had a two-and-a-half to three-hour wait list. We maintained it with paper and No. 2 pencil. When the line got that long I…
Feb 15, 2023 • 
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Be back soon...
I’ve gotten a few really kind e-mails lately asking if I’m OK and when I’ll be back on Substack, and the answer is yes yes yes, soon!
Aug 14, 2024 • 
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One Reason I Hate Ice Breakers is I Always Overshare
If you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be and does this exercise make you as uncomfortable as it does me?
May 4, 2024 • 
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F-Cups and Fluorescent Lighting
(Thoughts on lingerie and reading Grace Paley in a post-Roe era)
Jun 30, 2022 • 
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Calcification
Have you ever heard a friend’s work voice for the first time? he asks. The question throws me back to cusp-of-30; Friends who talk system integrations…
Dec 17, 2023 • 
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But What if I'm a Donkey?
Scattered thoughts on heartbreak, cages, and Glennon Doyle
May 18, 2023 • 
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A Whale of a Problem
Mark is cheating on us. He delivers the news matter-of-factly, almost under his breath, to fill an already awkward pause in conversation. None of us…
Dec 21, 2023 • 
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This is why God made Emojis
Re: Ted Mosby, Writer's Block and "Check Yes or No"
Sep 6, 2023 • 
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Hyperbaric Oxygen & Finnegan's Wake
I should be in an airport in Miami right now, en route to Costa Rica, for a writing retreat.
Jan 24, 2024 • 
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Prelude to a Reckoning
Notes on an Overdue Return
May 6 • 
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Even a Georgia Peach
On Australian Cattle Dogs, Hamster Trauma, and some guy named Kevin
Aug 21, 2023 • 
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