ruminations
On life, and other Topics
or, Deep Thoughts
Everything My Mom And I Disagree About
My mom and I agree on the big things: politics, television, cats. And we agree on most of the small things; I often seek her advice on boys and clothes. We even have mother-daughter tattoos. Yes! We’re so cute!
what women want
My improv teacher recently ended class with a lecture about, among other things, societal ills, during which he correctly identified the so-called “male loneliness epidemic” as a “male anti-social epidemic.”
Stuff Guys Like
It occurred to me recently (in the shower, natch) that based on my previous posts, especially this one, that casual readers of this newsletter might reasonably surmise based on my writing that I don’t care about the unfairer sex. But this isn’t true. I think guys are, you know, they’re humans, too. And it’s not like I haven’t been paying attention to th…
*more* stuff guys like
A month ago I wrote about things that, per my own observations, boys seem to like. Since then I have continued to notice more and more stuff guys like! I find it an interesting anthropological study.
drive me crazy
At Columbia, the school that destroyed my mental health but introduced me to a number of my closest friends, you cannot obtain an undergraduate degree without passing a swim test. At least, that was the rule when I was there. The test was, I think, to get from one end of a pool to the other without drowning, and campus lore had it that this was a holdov…
5 Inventions I Would Invent Were I An Inventor
I am not an inventor. I cannot engineer or make. I don’t design. I’ve never even 3D printed. But I am somewhat imaginative, and I have ideas for things that should exist.
Only Children Are People Too
Recently, a number of friends birthed/conceived their first kids, and, with the economy and whatnot, possibly their last. More than once, a friend with a toddler has come to me to ask, “we don’t think we’re going to have another but we both grew up in big families…is having just one…okay?” As if I am, merely by being a sibling-less adult, uniquely quali…
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