A few days ago, an article appeared in my news feed titled, “Next Person to Say They’re ‘Childfree’ Gets a Time-Out.” Meghan Daum, a writer who several years ago published an anthology of essays about writers choosing not to have children, was “calling for an immediate ban” on the word…
It’s easy to forget how challenging being a teenager can be, how the world seems ready to foist adult responsibilities onto you without offering any adult freedom in return. And our clichéd view of teenage angst makes it easy to dismiss the struggles that people go through as they move…
Someone asked, “Who was your first Harvey Weinstein?” now that his name is synonymous with sexual predator. Every woman who heard the question had to stop and think because it has happened for so long, so often, in so many different ways.
It happens early for most of us, the…
It wasn’t just a job. That’s what the people who tried so hard to pull me out of my angst didn’t realize.
When I started working at the Library I was just a few months out of rehab, sober, and no idea who the fuck I was…
