He’s not the one. You know it and it’s coming up to two years and you haven’t told […]
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My mother asked me to try Reiki on her. It was the most later-in-life request: practical, tentative, and […]
“I want to buy something luxurious.” That’s what I told myself walking through the mall, as if I […]
Before they reached their 30s, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, Napoleon conquered Italy, and Amelia Earhart set […]
A store greeter halts you at the entrance as you walk into a multi-department renovation supplies store and […]
Our first home after I got married was a rented apartment in a village sixty miles from Munich. […]
Dear Sentient Carbon Atom Blobs, Because we value you as customers, we are excited to announce that Earth’s […]
I know that, for many in my demographic, the first decade or so of our lives was spent […]
The egg had such a flimsy shell that the contents fell out at the slightest tap and splattered […]
Having Cake You Can’t Afford, Let Alone Eat Do you remember the Golden Age when MSN Messenger reigned […]
She enters. The morning glow filters from the high-set windows and descends like a halo upon her sustainably-dyed […]
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman When You Scorn “The Bachelor” You allow her to handcuff […]
Stefan Zweig quotes Honoré de Balzac as saying, “The woman of forty will do everything for you—the woman […]
Sweet 16 and released from our convent school for the holidays. Dervla’s parents were Irish, and this tenuous […]