The crisis is an American Policy failure through and through, and American policy can fix it. I walked up to the Catholic Charities/Red Cross building in the deep west side of midtown Manhattan unsure of what to expect. There were lines of recently arrived migrants, all appearing exhausted and scared…

Existential dread for your children Q: Why didn’t you write anything for three years? A: Clinical Depression, mostly, dear one. The emotional and psychic toll of the pandemic depleted the inner wellspring from whence springs my desire to write. The cruelty that some humans visited upon other humans for inane…

There is no one-size-fits all approach, because every body is unique and different and definitely incorrect. As a woman in today’s world, you have a lot to think about, but the thing you inevitably think about the most is your body. If you’re not, you’re doing it wrong! But don’t…

And we, the women, vicariously exhaled. Taylor Swift, as she looks from the outside, appears to have it all. She is wildly successful, a once in a generation talent, the millennial Stevie Knicks (minus the ass cocaine, I’m assuming), she is stunning and has infuriatingly symmetrical features. On top of…

Or as I call it, The Sad. — I have been writing this post for 3 years. Today is the 3 year anniversary of my grandmother’s death. People lose people every day. I am not special. My grandmother was. She was important to me. I was new to grief, and this is how I experienced it. I hope…

Wherein I, a childless woman, answer actual questions of actual children and possibly traumatize them for life — Q: “Do bees have lips?” A: An excellent question, dear child. Bees do not have lips in the same sense that humans do, rather, they have something called a labial palp that are situated on either side of the proboscis. Here is a picture. I am told children enjoy those:

A series in which I answer the inane questions your children ask, but with a side of existential dread — Q: Why are trees different? A: Trees are different because of the evolution of plants, dating back to the dinosaurs. Trees were actually sporous plants, much like giant ferns, and they were purple as they had not yet developed chlorophyll. Eventually the taller plants began crowding out the big fern plants…