This is my favorite embroidery I’ve ever done – on an aesthetic level but also on a personal one. It’s something I struggle with a lot: beating myself up for falling short of perfection. Which is funny, because I so…
I’ve been going through a lot of big changes lately, and while almost all of them have been good in the long term, the short term has been one long ball of stress and exhaustion and emotional turmoil. The above…
In the cold fluorescent light of the bathroom at my downtown office, I grinned at myself in the mirror like a fool. You are a fucking gem, I thought, and someone worthwhile is going to notice it and never want to give…
As I reached the tiny tea-light candle out to the flame of one of the hundreds already dancing on the small metal structure, I held my breath and prayed, starting out the same way I always did: Dear Lord, please…
Ciao, tutti! I’ve been in Italy for about two and a half weeks now, and I figured it was time for an update. I’m hoarding most of my best writing for the book (sorry, but I haven’t yet decided whether…
I like to think I’m considered to be pretty flexible among my friends. I can usually be convinced to meet up anywhere, to do almost anything – to the point where I think it annoys people sometimes that I don’t…
Last week marked exactly a year that I’ve been back in the States, and although I adore San Francisco and being home has been good for me in a lot of ways, one word keeps running through my mind: BASTA. …
Today is my 29th birthday. Happy birthday to me. Insert wry facial expression here. A lot of people, especially family friends and older acquaintances, have assumed that my feeling of dread as this birthday approached had to do with this…
I’ve long maintained that weight and health, while obviously linked, aren’t as closely tied as the medical community would have us believe. In my experience, they simply can’t be, since I’ve always weighed more than average (even as a slim/normal-sized…
Uh oh… I’m kind of obsessed with this website, which allows people to cycle through photos of real women’s bodies, with size/shape/weight/height stats at the bottom. I’ve been clicking through it for so long I forgot to make dinner (and…
