My guess, as a white woman, is that we see this behavior because white women have a lot of privilege in the world but not a positive cultural identity. So, these maniacs decide to identify differently. It’s a win-win for them. As white women, they’re not really in any danger of harm or true oppression, but they get to…

I am not sensitive to these things, so I was just generally spooked out by the house (we lived there for the rest of my childhood/young adult years, and eventually my parents got out of dodge), but my friends would call their parents to get them during sleepovers “because they were scared” through middle school. My…

My parents bought a haunted house in the country from my grandpa because we couldn’t afford in-town taxes anymore. He bought the farmland the house was on and since we weren’t going to take that away from him, everybody wins, right? Except we were CHILDREN and when we were digging up the dirt-floor basement to pour…

They were probably in the process, but universities don’t just go off and fire people in a week. They make sure to run everything by the lawyers to prevent a costly lawsuit. 

I love this.

This is a very sensible 2020-parenting response to a very 1994-parenting situation. She obviously tried to comfort me but I was surrounded by discarded tin foil bird sculptures and highly uncommunicative. (I still am.)

Why do they think we’ll fall for the sealed-envelope-isn’t-about-you nonsense?! Incredible! 

I love how I just refer to my mom right off the bat as “she” like she’s always on my mind (she is) (help me, Freud). 

I had a little emotional breakdown over my art project in third grade and she said she was going to speak with my teacher about how upset I was. Proud and (normally) unemotional, I begged her not to tell the teacher I had been crying. The next morning, my mom handed me a sealed envelope and told me that to give it to…

What a sensational article, thank you! It makes me want to check out her novel next month.

I can google, but if you have specific articles in mind I’d love to hear.