Since forever, I’ve felt the clenching somewhere in my womb when the right point of my hormonal
cycle meets up with a non-screaming baby in the aisle at the grocery
store. The impulse is easy biology: the babyless and mommy-aged female
getting weird around small children is more evolutionarily obvious than
boners. Never, though, has it been so acute and so constant for me.
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Throwing a goodbye party for yourself may be an exercise in forced sentimentality — but in their own way, the little goodbyes help prepare for when you have to say the big ones
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As I have been actively seeking wisdom from ladies slightly and much
older than me ever since my recent turning-of-29, it seems an
auspicious time to offer some hard-won, well-considered tids of my own.
Listen up, bitches. ...more
As a pill hobbyist, I’ve learned that the most important thing about
recreational pharmaceutical consumption is restraint. The anti-anxieties and analgesics
that are very often taken, uh, therapeutically are engineered and
prescribed for genuine physical and emotional problems, and using them — from
legitimate or black market access to diazepam, lorazepam
and the rest — can too-quickly develop into addiction. But I've got fun with pharmaceuticals down to a science.
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So much about a cultivated identity is just spin on where we come from,
whatever the “where” means: a hometown, a country, a faith, a family, a
circle of friends. Truth becomes subjective (or just vanishes, in serious Don Draper situations) when personal history is up for grabs, as it is for people
who build lives away from family strictures. Or, just the cool stuff
can be included. ...more
Every year, sane, smart people declare that they’ll change a bunch of
shit about themselves and their lives, very often the same bunch of
shit as the year before, and expect that the promises and the act of
making them means something different this time, every time. It won’t. It can’t. I’m sorry, muffin, but it isn’t going to happen like that. Making big life changes is nearly impossible — and if it does happen, it probably won't be in January.
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