history
We're in Trouble
My daughters will live the rest of their lives in a conflict zone
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Sex, Lies and Wife Guys
When a cheating scandal hits close to home
food
The Breakfast Burrito in the Age of Suburbs
Breakfast burritos kept my suburban childhood structurally sound
environment
Three Things
Failing at home. Rehearsing the truth with my dead dad. Being eaten alive.
white supremacy
White Eve doesn't eat forbidden fruit, she bakes apple pies.
The white middle class home is a Garden of Eden.
Three Things
My daughter is afraid of heaven. Donuts in a heat wave. Red Rocks, 7022 AD
Scream into my pillow
For me, scream into a pillow anger is the kind of anger that is good, righteous even, but the sound of it will change absolutely nothing. So I shove the sound of my fury into a pillow, or the palm of my hand or the walls of my shower. It’
The kitchen is for crying (and sometimes killing)
Let's sing about it.
family
We got a dog when I gave up on the future
The problem with promises is that the future can’t keep anything.
california
Grief and Sex at Mimi's Cafe
Even the suburbs of my childhood had something to lose.
history
What happens to the people who survive the end of the world?
I can tell you if you want.
Consumerism is bad, but I truly loved the mall as a kid.
I am in Southern California for the month of July. I grew up here. It’s lovely and horrifying to be back home, for all the reasons homecomings have always been lovely and horrifying. When Odysseus came home, he raged against the developments of greed and lovingly traced the outlines