Friends: Who?
Me: She's a great New York treasure.
We're all about to have a lot of free time to "catch up", so I'm sharing my list of favorite online pursuits.
Read MoreI'm most bored at lunch, shuffling in a line of people staring at their phones, yelling an order, settling at my desk and eating with the wall. I dislike commuting home. I dislike calling home (Alabama). Thinking about dinner makes my chest tight (like: I can't make another decision or it'll kill me). I check my bald spots before bed, I have one at the crown and two behind my ears because of stress. My neck hurts every morning when I wake up, and I have dreams of being overlooked or of a rabbit that is overlooked and unfed.
Read MoreEvery morning at 7:30 -- the sun turning the windows gray, my Echo alarm chiming, sweat in my hair -- I say to myself: "What is going to happen today?"
Read MoreThat evening I paced across the rug in the living room through a dense cloud of my thoughts. Do you ever feel as though you are just...waiting? Like you are paused watching something far away grow close, but you can't tell if it's good or bad, and you can only stand and wait?
Read MoreWhen people ask me what I want to be like when I'm older, I always see the same thing: a woman with a mature version of my face, wearing a Barbour jacket with a dog tucked under her arm.
Read More"Did you need anything else?" the shopkeeper asked.
"I want something new," I said. I was kind of pleading. She walked me to the shelf and picked up a ball point.
Read MoreSo the weeklies these next few weeks are very un-weekly, so while you wait patiently, I thought I'd remind you of all the thrilling posts in my archives.
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