Date #4 with Mr. Major Potential. Our similarities: comparable tastes in music, identical full-time single parent statuses, insatiable appetites for art, and we both “live” in a place where the new Heinz ketchup packet makes up the front page news. He also skateboards AND has the ability to breakdance… What more could a woman possibly [...]
“My blood alcohol level is dangerously low,”– Dry, Augusten Burroughs (Another enlightening story from my past. ~Fall 1999) “Let’s take your sister out and show her a good time,” my Pakistani Prince commanded from the seat next to me. “A good time…hmm…I think that’s how she ended up in this predicament in the first place.” [...]
When the unfortunate coffee incident happened on Sunday, I found myself experiencing a strange sensation. Empathy. Delayed empathy for an ex-boyfriend. Out of respect for his favorite Days of Our Lives character, we’ll call him Roman. Coffee, one of life’s necessities, one of my deepest desires, sacred, was there on the floor exposed and rendered [...]
