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Remember playing the M.A.S.H. game as kids? It very accurately predicted life as an adult: who you would marry, where you would live, ...

I long to have a place inside me that feels safe, no matter what is happening outside of me. A little island that's always dry and warm,...

Hellloooooo and how are you? Happy almost weekend! Here's where I semi-regularly drop reviews on what I'm consuming, in case you want to...

Can she live up to what we all need her to be? GOOD MOM has big shoes to fill, but she must take tiny, quiet steps. Does she know what...

I've been hearing that magical shift that happens after forty for decades. I had friends who swore once they turned forty, they stopped...

(Variations of this essay were awarded the 2018 Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest Adult Author Category – Third Prize and 2019 Erma...

Picture it: you have a huge bowl of your favorite ice cream, fresh out of the freezer, just the right amount of melty. It looks and...

It's taken me a few days to work through my feelings. I hadn't fully understood what it would do to me to commune with some of those...

I'm worried that this will all sound trite on paper, but it feels big and light in my chest, so I'm going to try to express it the best I...

Alternate title: It's Probably Just Me and I Don't Want You To Worry About Me (But Please Worry About Me) I can't tell you how many...

OK, so last month I set out to watch all the Academy Award best pic nominees and I made it through much of the list, which is actually...

I'm writing on a new fiction gaming platform! If you like stories but get bored reading full books and you kinda miss graphic novels and...

Yesterday when I was working in the O.R., I was asked to explain the plot of the movie "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once," in one...

This was from 23 years ago-we'd been dating for about 3 years and got married 2 years after this. I was 19, he was 22. That was...

Hello, darlings. Hope you're surviving this whole human thing. I am, but only barely. It's been a season of depression and anxiety for me...

So, remember when we started therapy with an older, wisened therapist who seemed kind of quirky? We met with him again this week, and I...

We had our first marriage counseling session today. I was nervous (see previous fear rant) and skeptical as the therapist the online...

I have advised a lot of other people to do marriage counseling over the years and have even said dumb shit like, "It's a way to keep...

My heart hurts all the time, and I'm told that's normal when you're a parent. I worry, I fear, I struggle, I put everything I have into...

I recently performed the burlesque act that I've been working on for the past few months. The showcase was transformational and the whole...