On the many versions of myself that have loved one television show. — In this weekly column, Veronica Walsingham watches an episode of Sex and the City and writes about it. This is week/episode one. When I was younger, I was that annoying friend who asked questions like, “What’s your favorite part about life?” I still remember my friend Angie’s answer. …

It’s 2019 and I want to write about ‘Sex and the City’, so I am. — Because the state I live in is burning and the planet I live on is burning, I’m writing about what I want to write about, which happens to be a show that hasn’t aired a new episode in fifteen years: Sex and the City. All my writing has come from…

Sites like Etsy and Instagram are remaking a classic artistic hustle — “Don’t believe those people who say being a poet isn’t lucrative.” That’s Eric Vance Walton, a writer who composes custom poetry for clients. His business stretches back to the 1990s, before bespoke everything — shampoo, perfume, Game Boys — became an online phenomenon fed by vendors on Etsy and Instagram…

Why my lens on a personal tragedy is love, not loss — I don’t know if I’ve ever been as thankful for a complete stranger as I am for the vet technician who hit my dog with her car and killed my dog — which, I know, sounds strange. Allow me to explain. Eric and I were sharing a studio apartment in…

For years, I’ve been doing the same thing to make this time feel a little less lonely — During the holiday season’s peak travel days, Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway almost looks festive — the red and white lights of cars, stretching for miles, can be beautiful, if you’re not stuck inside the traffic yourself. It can also lead one to believe that every single person vacates the city…

There’s a Friends scene I think about sometimes, and it goes like this: Chandler: You know, when guys hang out, they don’t just drink beer and hammer up drywall. Monica: When girls hang out, we don’t have pillow fights in our underwear. [Chandler looks like he just found out his…

As of June 6, 2018, it has officially been twenty years since Carrie Bradshaw was introduced into the pop culture heavens, where she will remain until the computers rebel against us and everything is deleted. With the 20th anniversary, a slew of Sex and the City articles were published, mostly…