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Humiliations Help

On vulnerability, control, and the strange grace of losing your footing I came to Mexico for music. For joy. For the improbable pleasure of hearing Noah Kahan sing into a warm night with the Caribbean behind him. I did not come to discover, in a very public wristband line, that my digestive system had decided to revolt. There is a particular kind of humiliation that arrives when your body stops cooperating in front of strangers. It’s fast, intimate, and completely uninterested in your dignity. One moment you’re a […]

I Take Linen Towels to the Gym

There’s a saying people like to repeat with a tone of quiet authority: how you do anything is how you do everything. It’s usually delivered as wisdom. Occasionally as a warning. Say it with enough confidence and it sounds like a law of human nature, simple, explanatory, tidy. It reassures people that if you understand one corner of someone, you’ve unlocked the whole floor plan. I’ve always found it persuasive. And also completely unworkable. Because if it were true in any literal sense, I would be an extremely

Just Say No

Remember Nancy Reagan and her ridiculous anti-drug campaign? Yeah, that didn’t work. Of course it didn’t. That’s because “no” isn’t for us to tell others what to do. It’s about what we choose to do or not do. There was a time when I couldn’t just say no Declining an invitation required a story. Not just a sentence, but a small narrative arc. A reason with edges softened in advance. Something plausible, preferably external, preferably temporary. I was busy. I was tired. I already had plans. I’d been