Welcome to my house of words. I write essays about attention, midlife, and domestic disorder. One time, I got a couch stuck in a doorway to avoid working on my memoir because writing is the worst but also the best.
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I’ve been in the doldrums, writing-wise and generally, for two weeks now (you know, like one gets from living in the year of our lord 2026), so I decided to do a little experiment, writing-wise. This is the experiment:
The fact that my h...
Twenty-five years ago, I was picking up Cheerios
I was three thousand miles from the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, reheating my coffee in the microwave for the second time while trying to keep my eight-month-old daughter from eating cereal off the floor while se...
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In high school, I was voted Most Likely to Talk to Anyone or Anything about Anyone or Anything. Decades later, I'm still at it.
Surprisingly upbeat for a Soviet-born (San Francisco-raised) cynic. Neither of my children finds me funny.
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