…today, I fell on my head. It didn’t hurt a lot, in the grand scheme of pain, but the sound–that dull, cartoonish thonk–evoked a very clear body-memory of when I got hit by a car. The body never fails to remember pain, even though we sometimes manage to banish it for a while, deep in the folds of our subconscious minds.
I’ve been unemployed technically since September, though I can’t really count the month I spent traveling through Greece as time spent trying to find a job, so let’s say November – making it about 3 months since I last received a paycheck. Personally and professionally, I’ve always been the kind of person to put all their eggs in one basket. I’ve never had a plan b because I didn’t have to (insert lesbian joke here).
Valentine's Day is coming up, and I know this because of the dozens of marketing emails I've gotten recently, with long subject headings and lots of punctuation, such as, "Lesbian…
It's hard for me to write about yoga. Partly because I tend to find most writing about yoga to be maddeningly vague, in an affirming, new agey way. Sentences like,…
The exercise-by-hand-job trend lives! This time the hilarity comes from Easy Curves, where a woman in a white lab coat tells us how "university research" has proven that you CAN…
A dating site called Beautiful People, where current members rate your attractiveness to determine whether you're allowed to join, recently purged 5,000 members for supposedly gaining weight over the holidays.…
The Frisky has a pretty good list of 11 Girl on Girl Misconceptions, including the oft-aggravating "it's just a phase" line and the fact that no one quite knows how…
I got this idea from Glamour, the UK version, which is exactly like the American version except it’s not “seduce a hot guy in ten minutes or less” it’s “shag…