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Other People’s Houses: When white women in fiction try too hard

I’m either depressed or having a quarter-life crisis

Hi, I’m thirty and I don’t know what I’m doing with my life! I don’t feel chill about it!

Let me rewind a bit.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is exactly the kind of show I need right now

One of the most extraordinary moments in the pilot episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is when our hero, Miriam Maisel, and her husband of four years, Joel, kiss goodnight and crawl chastely into bed. Miriam…

All the other lives I live, based on people who accidentally use my email address as their own

I am a woman with a friend named Helen. Helen is a fan of email forwards. She sends me an astonishing photograph of a long line of Canadian Mounties standing shoulder…

Waking up: A quick thing on systemic harassment and abuse

As the anniversary of last year’s election draws near, I’ve been getting nervous. Annual milestones are a big thing for me, in general, and I find myself feeling sad and apprehensive and quietly shocked that it’s been this long…

Dirtbag teen opinions that I’ve mostly grown out of

Remember the good old days, when you were 16 and your body was weird and your parents were idiots? I definitely knew everything back then and was pretty sure I was the first person to think that normal social conventions were for SHEEP, not…

The show I love to hate, Royal Pains, is finally over, praise everything

Okay, TECHNICALLY Royal Pains was over in the summer of 2016, but I have always watched it on Netflix when the season becomes available a year later, so I’m just now catching up.

Things I’ve learned about myself in the past month

If I absolutely have to, I can navigate an unfamiliar area and get where I’m trying to go. I’m not great at this, and so when JD and I are traveling I let him look at the maps and figure out our route. Possibly one of the most sexist parts of…

Learning Italian and being okay at it

In preparation for JD’s and my upcoming trip to Europe, which will include several days in Venice, I’ve been teaching myself Italian. I do multiple sessions on Duolingo every day, and recently bought the Pimsleur introduction to Italian. I also got an audiobook of…