i’m so thrilled to relay that an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir is featured in The Huffington Post!! and it’s the featured blog in their mother/daughter campaign. i couldn’t be more thrilled. i’m weeping into my damn keyboard, here. WEEPING, i say.

photographs (save the last one, which was snapped by me in my kitchen) courtesy of the v. cool pitchaya.
and everyone, everyone loved my three-layer chocolate cake.

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and i’m makin’ her a cake, just like this. happy weekend….

in the course of a decade, i’ve worked in eight offices, in six companies, in five different industries: two high-profile financial firms, a european dot-com, a media conglomerate and two publishing houses. i’ve been drug-tested, background-checked and then given a passcard where i was beeped in past security (oh the glory of the morning [...]

Sometimes I think about robbing a bank just to get caught. That way I could sit in a cell and get some time to think, some time to rest and` smoke cigarretes all day. I quit smoking years ago but think I could handle my stress better if I still did. I would never [...]

so if i haven’t prattled on about it enough, i’m tickled beyond belief that i have the opportunity to host a new podcast/radio show. essentially, i want to put you, dear reader, in the driver’s seat. come may, i’ll be hosting a weekly show, which will feature roundtables with established and emerging authors, individual [...]

on the long ride home i sat next to a woman who birthed dolphins from paper. from her bag she unearthed scissors, the kind that children use. no sharp edges. no cutting. and there she went, busying herself with the work. she traced a dolphin onto canary contruction paper and then cut. she drew a [...]

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this weekend, i’ll be here, on a first date with a boy who’s getting cuter by the minute.

i’m feeling like the gal who’s arrived at the party a few minutes late, but i’m really digging joshua ferris’s debut novel. i haven’t laughed this hard since sam lipsyte’s homeland – then we came to the end is a hilarious respite from some of my most recent reads.
*listening to: cat power’s cross bones [...]

i’m in a damn good mood so i’m riding this, indefinitely. i’m eager for the spring blooms, the lilacs, lavender and blossoms in the gardens. the pretty dresses (yes, in my off hours, i am a bit girlish) and flouncy curls. the books propped up on both knees. the pomegranate fizz drinks, fruit tarts [...]

remember my crazy craft stint last march? or maybe you’ve checked out craft zine’s national handwriting day? has your handwriting (like mine) been reduced to pathetic chicken scratch? have you forgotten the cost of a stamp? have you lamented that you occasionally can’t remember your address?
well, my carpal-tunnel suffering, paper-frightened friends — i’m here to [...]

Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms on organic food being too expensive, thus elitist: “I don’t accept the premise. First off, those weren’t any elitists you met on the farm this morning. We sell to all kinds of people. Second, whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it’s actually the [...]

you’re all talking about it, but are you writing? really? are you making connections offline? whipping out the pen and discovering that the chicken scratch is indeed your once perfect penmanship? (who writes the cursive letter for “Q” anymore??!! Bring Q back, I say!) remember, this project was inspired by both craftzine (big swoon) [...]

“What is it about fast food? Not only is it served in a flash, but more often than not it’s eaten that way too…Perhaps the reason you eat this food quickly is because it doesn’t bear savoring. The more you concentrate on how it tastes, the less like anything it tastes. I said before [...]