I am the first to admit I don’t know much about wine. I had always been a white wine drinker, whatever was sweet and cheap, getting the two-for-one specials to accommodate my large family at holidays. Recently, however, my friends had turned oenophile, bringing bottles to the table upwards of ...
As some of you know, I recently got engaged. And it's wonderful. I love the giggly, first-date feelings when I put the ring on, I love my fiance, and I love our life together. It took about two days of that before my brain got the better of me. The ...
A history of mental illness is like a tornado warning at the bottom of the TV screen. It doesn’t guarantee a tornado, or that if there is one, it will do serious damage. Most of the time, it doesn’t even distract you from normal daily programming. But… it’s there. And ...
“You want to see me self-defend myself? Go over there and pretend to be a sexual predator. Go on, I dare you!” — Rachel on "Friends" Being a lady is complicated. After all, we’re complex creatures. We have odd plumbing, our brains are wired like a subway map, and we ...
Geography was never my strong suit in school. While I could spell the hell out of Zimbabwe, I had zero chance at giving someone directions other than a vague wave at a map and a mumbled “over there… ish.”But, I do believe that one should always at least be familiar ...
The wide smile of blind panic.I don’t remember much about the day I left for college. I know my father and sister were impatient to leave and annoyed at the amount of crap I had managed to cram into a Saturn sedan. I remember sitting on the bare wooden window ...
I don’t care for dead people. Whether they’re on TV, on the news, or in the same room with me: they scare me, and I’m fine with that. At funerals, I’ve always been a fan of the “milling around at the back of the room” crowd than peering over the ...
Some people are born thin. They come from thin people, eat what they want, and never give a day’s care to the size and shape of their bodies. These people must have been very, very good in past lives. Previously, I must have been a supervillain.
I’m the first to admit: there are a lot of things on this list that don’t need to be. I don’t really need to speak French or dye my hair pink. Those aren’t needs. Needs are a house, food, enough money for bills and possibly a car. And whenever I ...
I had never been hugely into baseball. I went to college in Boston, and the yearly feud between the Sox and Yankees wasn’t something you could easily avoid (especially in 2004—suck it, Yanks), but I would turn games on purely for background noise. Occasionally my father and I would talk ...
As I look over this list, I wonder if some of the items can be counted as cheating, seeing as I’ve already done them. Call me an overachiever, but the reality is I’m a victim of immediacy anxiety, always paranoid that I could be hit by a bus at any ...
Perhaps the difficult decision during Ann Arbor's Restaurant Week is not where to eat, but where to eat first. My family chose The Melting Pot due to a mixture of good reviews, the trendy allure of a fondue lunch, and the swanky dimly lit atmosphere that looks like they know ...
My sister sent me a message on Facebook, as frantic as most such messages are, with the following title: TOP OF THE PARK SCHEDULE OMG!! My sister and I have long accepted (celebrated, even) our hermitism, so I attribute this enthusiasm to the fun we had last year, free movies, ...
It occurs to me that the things that normally end up on this list are rather epic. While my novel gathers dust on my desk, snickering and waiting for me to welsh on my promise of completion, I can at least take comfort in the knowledge that I have completed ...
My last birthday (and its somewhat regrettable aftermath) was one of the more memorable of my life. Appropriate, since it was the last birthday of my twenties. When my next birthday rolls around, I will be my mother’s age.
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