Stephanie Klein Greek Tragedy

For all the people who judge, who are quick with their advice, telling me how to live my life, or how they’d live theirs if they were me, I say this: as much as I want a laundry room with…

While I’m really beginning to love Austin with all the new restaurants popping up, I’m never going to love this: Norma coming to me, panic-stricken, saying I must see "the animal Bikini has in his mouth." Something in me fluttered.…

Air Supply. Lemon water on a coaster beside your bed. Playing Word Warp on your iPhone. When you can imagine a descending escalator, each step falling into the next as you go lower and lower, deeper into sleep. Imaging yourself…

I get it. Giving feels good. Doing for others is what really makes us happy. Not things. Actions. Selflessness. I so get it. I do. But what happens months later, when you gave and gave, and now you’re stuck in…

And then you make your all-time favorite drink (after the Abigail Rubytini): The…

5 oz. Freshly Squeezed Ruby Grapefruit Juice
(No, you cannot substitute "Simply Grapefruit" from the grocery store)
2 oz. 42 Below Passion Fruit Vodka (or Smirnoff Passion…

"Stephanie, you’re seriously so goddamn beautiful."
"You so just want to go home and watch Big Nasty Butts, Anal Paradise. I’m onto you, pal."
"Um, you better not be posting that on your blog."
"Are you kidding me? Your mother…

Your life doesn’t stop with bad news. You keep living it and deal. Last night after taking the tots to swim class, Phil headed to the country club for a burger, the sprouts went to kids club, and I attended…

Phil had an appointment with his cardiologist yesterday. It was a scheduled "stress echo," where they were planning on taking photos of his heart at rest, and then every three minutes, as they upped the speed on a treadmill. That…