This tweet filtered down my Twitter TL and got a HUGE response online: I was surprised by the numerous visceral reactions from people with whom the tweet resonated, because if the pulse and temperature of social …
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I was about to go to sleep after a particularly delightful session with the husboo when something snatched me away from my much-deserved post-coital slumber: A realization. I couldn’t smell the sex I’d just had. I …
“Two’s company, three’s a crowd”, the saying goes—but in the Odyssey of Desire, this loaded arithmetic is disproved by the logic of self-love. “You are your own person. When you couple up with a partner, you …
I met the man who would eventually become my husband when I was 24 and when I had a strict “no more than 5 years older” policy when it came to dating. I turn 40 this …
Whew chile! We are in some strange and unpredictable times. 2020 has been one hell of a hot mess and we’re only halfway through. No one knows what to expect next, except maybe the CIA. I …
(continued from previous post) It started early in the year when I had so much work to do. I was getting to work and leaving at odd hours in order to meet deadlines. There were days …
It’s the 7th of April, 2020, 5:30 pm. It’s Tuesday and I’m home, lying on my sofa trying to write this piece. I should be at work, but I’ve been on a two-week compulsory leave for …
Have you ever seen the movie Crazy, Stupid, Love? In the beginning of the film Steve Carell and Julianne Moore are having dinner in a swanky restaurant. Steve is wearing an ill-fitting jacket and battered New …
There are some behaviors that classify as “white people tingz”. Those quirks include putting raisins in potato salad, aversion to seasoning food, and partners continuing to live together after a split. There are some things that …
I wish I could say I noticed him the minute I saw him, but that would be a lie. I’m often a dumbass, head stuck in the clouds of my career and life and money, money, …