Hackers, Scammers, and Identity Thieves, Oh My!
Help! I’m being attacked from all directions! March was a bad month for feeling secure in my digital life, and one where I had to really stay on my toes. Within a matter of 10 days, these things happened: A book marketer contacted me about promoting my book, and this time I was tempted to take the […]
Losing Our Friends: More Often Than Not, We Suffer in Silence
I recently became a subscriber to The Atlantic, and they sent out an email with links to eight of their most popular articles from their archives. One caught my eye: “It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart,” written in 2022 by Jennifer Senior. It’s subtitled “The older we get, the more we need our friends—and […]
Art and Artifice: Sneak Peak No. 1
[Below is Chapter 1, titled “September 2003,” from my recently released book, Art and Artifice: A Memoir. You can read Chapter 2 here, and Chapter 3 here, and Chapter 7 here.] “That chick can’t swim!” Megan’s voice shrieked above the noise of the party as she ran to the swimming pool and jumped in toward […]
Ghosted by a Friend Over Trump: Five Ways I’ve Moved On
There was something about the text message I just read that seemed off to me. It didn’t sound like my friend Gabby at all (not her real name). Early warning signs Things had been growing tense between us for about a year prior to the events I’m about to describe. Ever since I’d moved back […]
Sometimes Our Heroines Wear Pointe Shoes
Sometimes Our Heroines Wear Pointe Shoes [Note: this story was featured on the podcast The Story Voice on July 25, 2021, hosted by Dr. Hank Roubicek. See the Epilogue at the end, to find out how this came about!] I moved to Houston, Texas in 1988 when I was 30 years old. Suddenly separated from […]
