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I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some... →
I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal at night - which may be odd but is also oddly... →
Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication... →
Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small... →
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different... →
I've always walked around with the sense that the world is not a safe place. I didn't get the spontaneous gene or the adventure one, really.... →
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big... →
There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be... →
Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off... →
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way... →
For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers.... →
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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