Aesop, Revisited

The other day, I was walking my dog and admiring all of the flowering trees. I never look up, because when I do, I end up performing a face plant due to uneven sidewalks, potholes, trap doors, holes to other dimensions — what have you. I went down just a week or so ago, right [...]

Missing: One Head with Hair

I panic when I have to talk to people I don’t know, and end up saying things like, “Excuse me, I have to go find my hair.” That’s what I ended up saying at my boyfriend’s 20-year high school reunion last weekend.
He went to a prestigious all-boy’s prep school in Boston, so of course everyone [...]

How Not to Be an Optimist

Last week, my hairdresser was explaining how, one day after buying a dozen eggs, she yanked open the refrigerator and watched the carton fall to the floor — all 12 of them shattering. “I knew I should have put them away properly but instead I just shoved the whole container into the egg rack.”
Instead of [...]