There are planets where it rains diamonds.

Fun fact! Not only is the demand for diamonds a marketing invention, but diamonds aren’t actually that rare. Only by carefully restricting the supply has De Beers kept the price of a diamond high.

Come to Florida. Live here for a decade or two. You’ll be ready to emigrate to Antarctica.

I actually really like cold weather and snow (and HATE humidity, but we have it here in Philly anyway). I like the clothing (scarves and hoodies and my giant winter coat that is like wearing a down comforter with sleeves!). I like zee winter sport (x-country skiing, ice skating). My job never closes for freakin’…

Because it doesn’t bother us?

And this is why guilty men will never really fear or understand. They can always find a woman who sides with them. Whole generations and communities of women and daughters who still believe boys will be boys or are more concerned with keeping up appearances than causing trouble.

I hear it from people I love. It makes it hard to like them sometimes.

I was shocked that Jodie Foster directed it. It had so many missed opportunities. I hoped they would explore a life where a person never has to see or hear anything that could upset them. It was so trite to have the sheltered daughter try to kill her mother because she was too controlling.

I watched Arkangel last night. 15 year-old Sara looked like a young woman in her early 20s.

I didn’t start my first “real” relationship until I was 25, after hanging on to some non-committal p.o.s. guy for 7 years. It seemed like all the waiting and working on myself and wading through assholes paid off. We lived together, spent every day together and then one day he dumped me in about the meanest way by…

WHY DON’T PEOPLE WITH MONEY EVER GO TO DECENT TATTOO ARTISTS

“It will happen for you one day” is one of the nuttier things well-meaning people say to me. It’s strange, like saying “you will win the lottery one day” or possibly “you will get hit by lightning one day”. I mean... even if I WERE to meet someone who is the marrying kind, that’s not necessarily a happy ending? Some…

The biggest gift my family ever gave me was that fully 50% of each generation don’t get married and become kickass uncles and aunts, for something like four generations now. So I was raised in an environment where being an old single was never “the wrong path” or some sort of lingering doom.

“What I’ve actually learned is that the work of keeping your path clear is a continual process, one so all-consuming that you may not ever have the time to look up and see where you’re going”

Yes, please tell me more about that false equivalence.

@jgh: This makes me sadder than it should.

Jenna, just read a quote from the frockwriter blog which really struck me, on the possibility of writing a book from your perspective: " But then there’s that whole being confident that you’re going to do a good job."

"And a curly-haired Scientologist teen sitcom actor who carried a wad of hundreds secured with a rubber band lectured me in a night club about the additive contents of Red Bull."

your writing is briliant and congratulations for taking such a leap. can't wait to hear more from you.