This is my second holiday, sister. It gets easier, I promise. But Mother’s Day will always suck. A thousand hugs to you. It was the hardest thing I have ever done, to walk away from a relationship that was eating me alive slowly, in increments, but because it was my mother it took about a decade longer than it should…

Thank you for this. No, really. Thank you.

Oh dear god my face is leaking.

I have never, ever smoked weed good enough to justify doing anything as risky as what you just described.

This is my not-so-humblebrag about my marriage:

It said 29. I’m almost 34. I WILL TAKE IT.

Oh shut up, Dionne.

Am I the only person who did not jet set and travel around a bunch when I was really young? I was broke, living in NYC, working full time to put myself through school. I feel like this sort of thing is such an immense luxury, yet it sounds like a common story.

I think teenage me would be okay with my career choices, but she would not be okay that we’ve turned into a GYM PERSON and she would probably be surprised by my choice of husband, since we were into shaggy haired unavailable boys with wallet chains back then, but I think she’d come around. She’d also be pretty excited…

The sounds that the mama and baby orca in Blackfish made when they were being separated will haunt my dreams forever. It broke my heart. Fuck SeaWorld.

My husband loves my hair so much that he doesn't give a fuck if its everywhere.

I didn’t just watch that five times or anything.

I love theater. I love Tori Amos. I am not sure the two should meet in this fashion.

I have come to the conclusion that men who go out of their way to insist that rape culture doesn’t exist have probably raped someone.

Used to work at a popular and overrated restaurant on the Upper East Side. I was forced into a button down white shirt, khakis, and tie, which we all know looks amazing on women. Uniform matters later in this story.

I’m in an MFA program right now, and my older male thesis advisor cannot believe that the main character in my script is a woman. He keeps insisting its the older son - which, no, he is decidedly a secondary character - along with other critiques that basically amount to him just wanting to write the god damn thing…

Oh right, Ayelet Waldman. Brave, brave lady, that one.

My husband is older than me (mid-forties), so I was really surprised when he bonded with this tiny person. He says she's his second favorite person (I barely hold the number one spot, and that is probably because I didn't make him eat Play Doh). I mean, she is really fucking cute. And smart and funny. And I love the…

<3! Good for you for admitting that you are not in a VORTEX O' SHATTERING LOVE. More women need to say that while it can be a thing for some, it might not be a thing for everyone!!!

My husband and I are childless by choice, though not 100% that we're never doing it (I'd say 80/20, as my husband fell madly for our friends' 2 year old daughter, who ADORES HIM and thinks he's the best. That's why she's the smartest kid I know). I think he'd be a great dad. I think I'd be a shitty mother. I am often…