I’ve been married almost three weeks now and here are my observations on this fine institution (and on the less fine one - weddings):
1. Marriage makes all your fights seem like nothing. We don’t fight a lot anyway, but our few fights in the last three weeks have been so chill. Mostly, fights are my […]
So, after a long time of seeing my dream professional life as a big mystery or something out of reach or very convoluted, today I had a clear glimpse of what I want as an attainable thing, something that combines a lot of the things I am good at with a medium I’ve never tried. […]
I’ve always been really resistant to linear thinking or absolutes, especially when it comes to people. I try to see people in a way that’s respectful to their humanity, and for me that means not seeing someone as just one thing - their job, age, race, whatever - and especially not their nationality or cultural […]
Half an hour in, and I am slumped forward in my seat, cradling my head in my hands. Five more minutes and my brain is pulsing against my skull from all the off-key notes.
I was led to believe this would be a dance recital. But there is one six-minute dance number and the rest is […]
“I got the goats off Craigslist.”
This video makes me feel really happy. I’m pretty sure the Cat Stevens playing in the background has a lot to do with that.
This New York Times article on haggling at big-box stores (“At Megastores, Hagglers Find Prices Are Flexible”) made me laugh out loud, and not just because it uses the word dicker, but because my people have been haggling the crap out of everything everywhere for, like, 2500 years. And lots of other people do this, […]
A band that feels like rainy days, heartbreak, digging through old photos, melancholy, and regret… and getting over all of the above. Like Nico, but male vocals and no German accent. Sample lyric: “Let me not be too consumed with this world / Sometimes I want to go home and stay out of sight for […]
Last night, the moon hung so low, so close to the earth, that I lost sight of it as I drove through Encino on Ventura Blvd. It dipped behind the squat minimalls, this deep orange moon, some omen for the Valley.
Anyway. I found a good quote by a French mime (yes, very ironic), Etienne Decroux, […]
As I get ready to pick up my fashion-plate little sister from LAX today, on her return from a trip to England (quick note here that my sister is far cooler than I will ever be, though she expects a certain level of chic from her older sibling, and this is why I have to […]
I have two half-sisters, one younger and one older, both my dad’s daughters. They live in Germany, where I was born. People are always surprised to find out about them, but I just don’t talk about them much because they were never part of my life. So, there’s not a lot to say besides, “Yeah, […]