You have this body. A pre-assigned meat suit you were born with, that hurts when you bash it and feels good when you rest it and lets you taste cheesesteak and spot red balloons in that blue, blue sky. You can dance with it. You can run with it. Its finely tuned responses and firing [...]
All my life, I’ve thought there was someone out there for me. I wondered what he looked like, how he laughed, what his eyebrows did when he was annoyed. How kind he was, what his jokes would be. What we would do on Sunday mornings, what our traditions would become. Waffles and sunshine. Watching TV [...]
My ex had a lot of money. The year before we split up, he became an official millionaire. This was a more low-key moment than you might imagine. He looked up from his laptop and said “I have a million dollars in the bank now.” I looked up from my laptop and replied “Huh. Cool.” [...]
