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  • Lately, I have been reading this passage from Rilke’s Fear of the Inexplicable every morning like a meditation. I wish I could say I came to Rilke’s prose in a more organic way, aroused...

    Should I Get a Tattoo? And Other Pressing Questions

    Lately, I have been reading this passage from Rilke’s Fear of the Inexplicable every morning like a meditation. I wish I could say I came to Rilke’s prose in a more organic way, aroused...

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  • In a few weeks I’ll be 32 and a man has yet to stand outside my house with a boombox over his head playing “In Your Eyes.” Life in the...

    I Wish I Were Prettier

    In a few weeks I’ll be 32 and a man has yet to stand outside my house with a boombox over his head playing “In Your Eyes.” Life in the...

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  • Mothers love to compare labour and delivery stories in some zero-sum one-upmanship of who is really suffering the fallout of Eve’s disobedience. “You think  682 hours of labour is bad? When I gave...

    My Best Friend Multiplied!

    Mothers love to compare labour and delivery stories in some zero-sum one-upmanship of who is really suffering the fallout of Eve’s disobedience. “You think  682 hours of labour is bad? When I gave...

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  • Now is a terrible time to have a vagina. It’s been decades since Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan rallied against a sexist power structure by bringing to the forefront political and cultural inequalities...

    V is for Victimization. And Vagina.

    Now is a terrible time to have a vagina. It’s been decades since Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan rallied against a sexist power structure by bringing to the forefront political and cultural inequalities...

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  • At my first doctor’s appointment after my mother died, almost eight years ago now, the doctor thought it was important that we talk about grief. I sat on the examining table, hands wedged under...

    O Mother, Where Art Thou?

    At my first doctor’s appointment after my mother died, almost eight years ago now, the doctor thought it was important that we talk about grief. I sat on the examining table, hands wedged under...

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  • It was my dad’s 65th birthday this year and I decided to make him a big family tree going as far back as I could to our Austrian/British roots. I knew very...

    Must There be an ‘I’ in Incest?

    It was my dad’s 65th birthday this year and I decided to make him a big family tree going as far back as I could to our Austrian/British roots. I knew very...

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  • I was never much into Harry Potter. I read the first book when it came out and I liked it, but in the same way that I like Peter Pan or...

    T-4 Days Till the Hunger Games!

    I was never much into Harry Potter. I read the first book when it came out and I liked it, but in the same way that I like Peter Pan or...

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  • I have been having trouble eating, sleeping and blogging  lately because I have been so focused on finishing my book (or, “book” really). I have toiled over my “book” and dreamed about...

    I Can Be So Mean

    I have been having trouble eating, sleeping and blogging  lately because I have been so focused on finishing my book (or, “book” really). I have toiled over my “book” and dreamed about...

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  • Consciousness and I have always had an on-again off-again relationship. Usually when I pass out though, I am doing something important, like having a routine blood test or watching someone...

    I Fainted in Public

    Consciousness and I have always had an on-again off-again relationship. Usually when I pass out though, I am doing something important, like having a routine blood test or watching someone...

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