-
All responses Most smiled responses
-
I did sort of forget it was there.
-
Hi! Thanks for asking this. What a question! It must be so hard to be a parent, struggling to help your kids make good decisions without constantly second-guessing or undermining them. I actually think that wisdom is contained in that somewhat cheesy CSN song about how much parents have to teach their children and vice versa. I guess just keep in mind that your kids have stuff to teach you. (My poor parents! But they do know I love them).
-
I wrote it for the NY Post magazine and you're right, it's not online. Maybe Nexis, or a library? I don't think I even have a copy!
-
I think it was a combo of breaking up with someone who was a huge pothead and finally realizing that it was definitely opposite-of-helping my panic attacks. I am at a point right now where I can get high like once a year and really enjoy it with the right friends and entertainments and snacks, which is awesome. I miss it in rare moments of blankness and unhappiness when I just want something that will turn off my brain, but then I force myself to remember that by the end of my daily-smoking years pot no longer even did that for me; it either made me go deeper into something negative or just made me fall asleep on the couch. I am not trying to villify pot here. It really does affect everyone differently and for some people it's just the ticket. For me it was a crutch and a hindrance. I used to worry about when I had children, how I would hide my pot habit from them or explain it to them or whether I would be able to quit while pregnant without going nuts, and I don't have to worry about that anymore, which feels nice! (Uh, not that I'm planning to get knocked up anytime soon.) But yeah, it is a tradeoff. I still have loads of bad habits (coffee among them!)
-
This feeling comes in waves, at least for me. Take a break and come back to writing when you feel an overwhelming urge to; the feeling will pass on its own, like a 24 hour virus!
-
This is way too late for your emergency but to me what goes with fries is burgers. Maybe a lamb burger with cucumber raita. Or you know, roast chicken is always the answer. That Laurie Colwin low and slow + constant basting technique really works. What did you end up making?
-
It was on heartbreak soup and a very different version is included in my book (out may 4!)
-
I didn't have a home practice til I did teacher training, to be totally honest. For me the hardest part of having a home practice is having the vocabulary of possible poses in your mind so you can design a sequence that makes sense for you; until you have that it seems impossible to sustain the mental discipline necessary to practice with no one watching! For me, the creativity involved in sequencing (and not doing the same thing every day) is what keeps my home practice interesting/doable. Another hot tip is cutting yourself some slack -- start by telling yourself it's ok to just practice for 10 minutes (it seems like an hour!) and work from there. If you get stuck there for weeks that's fine too; eventually you will get to 15 minutes, then half an hour, then 45 minutes - finally you'll be enjoying yourself so much that you'll lose track of time and not want to stop (really!) Doing any kind of teacher training, retreat, or weeklong intensive is a GREAT thing to do to kick off a home practice, too -- and if the $$ is an issue (how could it not be, is my feeling), keep in mind that a lot of studios offer work-study programs and scholarships. Good luck! (Namaste! heh.)
-
-
Whit Stillman -- you probably know this -- adapted Last Days into a novel in 2000. I haven't read it but it got pretty excellent reviews; maybe you could start with that.
And then, I guess: "Bright Lights, Big City," "Wonder Boys," "Slaves of New York," "A Gate At The Stairs," "The Invisible Circus," Adrian Tomine's "Shortcomings," and my book. For starters. -
I am definitely not an expert on this but my friends who have gone the MFA route say that the reason to do it is time. Like: you are paying to have the time to write, and also you're paying to have that official stamp of writer-ness, which can be very helpful, even if only to your self-esteem and party conversations. And that's actually worth a lot. (Though probably not $30K/year.) But if you're the kind of person who gets more done the more he or she has to do -like, if you thrive on having something to push up against -- then maybe it's not for you. [ Cites examples of all those famous writers who had civil service jobs, etc.] However I do have to say that nothing is more poisonous to the kind of writing where you have to sustain a thought for longer than five sentences than a pro blogging gig.
-
I was going to refer to the earlier question and point out that anonymous charity is the highest form of charity, per Judaism, but then I realized it would be sort of like Jenna on 30 Rock saying she is doing her "own thing" for the maintenance staff this year, ie, a cop-out.
I donated $10 from my phone that first day, then the next day sat down and looked at my bank balance very frankly and then donated another $100 to Partners in Health. I should probably donate more. -
You find it hard to believe? Weird. But yes, I was raised Reform Jewish, like ultra ultra Reform. My mom's family isn't Jewish, so for a long time I felt like it was an optional thing, like I could just be Jewish when I felt like it. My feelings have shifted a bit as I've gotten older. And ... I don't really want to talk about them! Religion/spirituality is one of the very few things that I feel "private" about. It's a very complicated subject and I don't want to alienate anyone. Also my own thoughts and feelings about it are kind of unsettled.
-
I have been listening to the Nina Simone Pandora station in the AM and the Breeders Pandora station in the PM -- the latter is a real winner, they play Helium and Mary Lou Lord and Elastica and Lush a lot -- for the past week or so and it's working out really well. My recent downloads are "Try Sleeping with A Broken Heart" by Alicia Keys (not an AK fan in general but I adore this song for some reason, and its psycho video -- Bennett says she looks like a busted Psylocke impersonator at a low-rent comic con, which is unfair but you CAN see her undergarment through her costume). I have also been listening to a lot of soundtracks from Broadway musicals lately. Sorry, I have. Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, mostly. Oh and lala.com has a six hour CCR box set that I listened to all day one day last week.
-
Is this Marisa? Ha.
I am going to sound like a complete loon but yeah, I have thought about this. Partially because my mom is a Virgo and I'm a Libra (with Aries moon and Aries rising) and obviously (OBVIOUSLY) this is the source of a lot of our personality clashes. She's hyper-organized and great at planning, and I'm more chaotic, striving for a balance that's always slightly off.
That said, though, I think I'd take my chances with my own (hugely hypothetical) child. My mom and I learn a ton constantly by having to deal with someone so constitutionally different from ourselves and that seems like an important part of what you're signing on for, as a parent. Also because of the slim outside chance that astrology is hokum. -
Essie "Amalfi" is a perfect light white-gold that looks great as it's chipping off, which is convenient for me because I get manicures like once a month and in between I maintain my hand-beauty with a stringent nail-biting and cuticle-picking regimen.
-
Oh god, the latter. No one should ever trust their rebound feelings. The intensity of your rebound feelings is related to the duration of the relationship you just got out of, I think. It really is like being on drugs. I look back on that summer with a sort of cringing, horrified quasi-amusement.
-
This changes, but you have to change it. This can be very hard sometimes but you have to keep in mind that everyone you deal with is just a person, not too terribly dissimilar from yourself. Sometimes it helps to imagine them doing something universal and vulnerable, like taking a shit.
-
Good question. We could do it so I am cooking with myself and asking myself questions, but that would be a bitch for Val to edit. Also there's almost no food in my book: a tube of premade cookie dough, a breakfast egg sandwich, and oversalted pasta at a bad Smith Street restaurant are the only things I can think of. I'm really not the show's dream guest.
-
I would look up my cousins who live around there and hang out with them! Um, I really have no idea. I would probably take up a crafting hobby in earnest -- start building intricate dollhouses full of miniscule feasts, or something. And I'd start smoking pot again, definitely.
-
Loading...
