When Phil was in eighth grade, he tells me, he needed something to display for Hobby Night at Rachel Carson Intermediate School. He grew up in a small three-bedroom apartment in Queens, NY with his older sister and mother, so…
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mommy
May 11, 2008
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Thank you for going with me when he wouldn’t.
For letting me be the over-the-top ham that I can be sometimes.
For driving…
stealing time
March 25, 2008
I’m never the first one asleep. I don’t sleep on planes, or anywhere it would be convenient, and favorable for all, to shed a little bit of my anxiety. I realize people who nap are healthier, that they live longer,…
playa hata
February 3, 2008
It’s only fitting that I’m watching the Indigo Girls perform with Brandi Carlile on Super Bowl Sunday. I used to go to parties and eat dip and chickens stuffed into ducks stuffed into turkeys (turducken), and have to fight for…
80s slang
January 9, 2008
I don’t know why but my cousin Damien always used to shout "stem!" whenever I did something dumb. Or if I tripped, came in last place, or hit the tennis ball over the fence. I did a search for "80s…
hello twelve, hello thirteen, hello love
January 8, 2008
I was twelve when I drew this in my diary. I kinda hate that the vagina was the nastiest thing I could think to draw to represent a girl I both loved and hated. Though, to be fair, other pages…
not a euphemism
November 19, 2007
I can’t have an orgasm unless I’m able to point my toes. The whole sex railed up against a wall bit is a total ruse. It might make for some nice foreplay, but eventually, I halt all action and demand…
fellow fat camper
September 10, 2007
Wendy Warner emailed me, and it wasn’t even mean. The subject line read: Fellow Fat Camper. And the content was downright flattering. "I went to camp with you. Do you remember me?… I have read so many of your blog…









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