Stephanie Klein Greek Tragedy

If you want something in your life—significant friendships, so close you feel like the sisters (the one you’re still talking to)—you have to say it, aloud, then make it happen. As promised once upon a friendship ago, here’s my Grab…

One of my closest friends here in Austin turned 37 two days ago. June 14. Earlier in the week I was sent a “Let’s Celebrate June Birthdays” email from another mutual friend, mentioning specifically that Shannan’s birthday was the 14.…

Because really, this is what happens when you grow up and have children. You no longer have the luxury of shopping with friends. It’s rare, and it used to be a given. Weekends were spent weaving in and out of…

QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER: A dear friend is getting married, across the country from me, in Florida She wants me to be there; I cannot afford to attend her wedding. And when I say I cannot afford it,…

(Luke & Abigail, Age 2)
Phil’s college friends, a couple with a two-year-old daughter, have been staying with us for the past eight days. Today is day nine. Their departure date was this coming Monday, day twelve. Yes, was. They’ve…

So to start: I’m pretty kick-ass, and I know it. I have a job which I use to pay for my travels and for my MFA. I graduated in May 2010 with a degree in creative writing, I run for…

I have three days left in New York (of my twenty day hiatus), when my laptop becomes lapbottom. In the absence of a keyboard, mouse, and screen, I opted for a book (The Heights by Peter Hedges, author of What’s…

Once upon an engaged life ago, I worked in an office with a beautiful, funny woman, who was, without question, a fucking psycho. But, man was she entertaining. And I liked how neurotic she was. In Moose I changed her…