‘Moonstruck’ Makes Me Reconsider the Myth of Bad Luck
Life can be crappy and expensive and heartbreaking, and there is no way out of that. That story feels more like the truth.
Life can be crappy and expensive and heartbreaking, and there is no way out of that. That story feels more like the truth.
Men around me speak about cancel culture with such hyperbole and terror, you’d think it was a supernatural force.
I fear it and I dream of it: total honesty with my family, opening the door of my personhood and letting them see all of me.
Regret, I was once told, means to weep again. My first thought, when I heard this: That’s what it is to tell a story.
Toward my “Japanese Barbie,” I felt mostly indifferent.
A Le Creuset Dutch oven telegraphs contentment and cheer—but for me, mine is a token of complicated bitterness and longing.
I love new wave music for the way it makes me feel—like the cups of my interior and exterior worlds are overflowing. Turns out I’m not the only one.
Early in the trip, the jellyfishes begin to take on the quality of metaphor.
It is a sin against myself to be anonymous.
There is something revolutionary in their will to be free.
I was helpful, but unlike the giving tree, I was not entirely happy.
Weren’t your thirties supposed to be the time when “real adulthood” begins? What if, instead of thriving, you’re striving?
What a joy it is—a singular joy, an occasion for jubilee—to allow your art’s translation through another point of view.
According to ‘The Witch,’ there’s no surer way to invite evil in than by being reckless enough to try to play God.
Fear of losing control is one of the causes of OCD.
To choose an omamori is to cast a wish.
This is the deal I’d make with God: my devotion in exchange for acceptance of the past, peace with the present, and assurances about the future.
When I packed my one suitcase to come to America, I put everything I thought I needed inside and romance wasn’t in it.
But pain and pleasure intertwine in playing the drums, much as they do elsewhere in life.
When girls begin to work in groups, their latent potential can be the stuff of horror films.