Cancer
You Can Call Me Poison Pussy. (But please don't.)
'Your pussy might poison people' was never a plot point in those Cancer Girl movies.
ADHD
I just had one job
And I really forked it up.
Marriage
I guess this turned into a love letter
I thought I was writing about hobbits and 9/11
Mormonism
I grew up in a church led by a prophet
If I followed him, my family would stay together forever
Marriage
The Colonoscopy + The Couple
There is no ladylike way to say, “Sometimes I bleed from my butt.”
Marriage
I wore lingerie for the first time in years. It was a disaster
Lingerie is complicated because lingerie is not neutral. It is a consumer good driven by exclusionary trends.
A Crowded Table
I own the table of my dreams because someone was desperate.
U.S. Housing Market
American Ownership
My husband and I bought our first home when we were 24. Hard work had nothing to do with it.