This is the start. This is how I came to define my entire adulthood. — Growing up, a window in our kitchen faced out into the backyard. My assigned seat at the dinner table faced this window. Our neighbor’s yard had this immense Sisso tree that must have been as tall as their two-story house. In the early evening, the light would catch the leaves…

The single tax is alive and well, and it’s only getting worse — I live in an area of the country that has seen an overwhelming swell in housing prices since the beginning of the pandemic. Rent followed suit. It’s flat-out weird but completely understandable. We are inundated with people fleeing Southern California in search of lower-cost housing in a still desirable location…

If we got paid for this work, we wouldn't want to work here. — I keep thinking we’re making headway in the general area of equality, and then something happens that snaps me back to reality. Sure, sometimes it’s an issue like the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Other times, it’s something so small it’s maddening. Recently, I was set off by a man’s…

Let’s stop thinking life only happens right in front of us. — When I was five, my family moved out to Phoenix from Long Island. Except the four years I spent going to college about two hours north of here, I have been in Phoenix damn near my entire life. I have never left. My parents made a bold move, just packing…

I have a one-step process that seems to work 100% of the time. — Once again, I seem to have triggered the red pill dudes, adding to the hours of already existing videos about how I am the spawn of the devil. This happens every six months or so. I could set a clock by it. Last week, I was driving down the street…

We are going to stand defiantly together, do you hear me? — One of the greatest joys of having abandoned my 9-to-5 job so that I can do my own thing and work from home is that I can take a break at 2 pm and head out to the pool with a book for an hour. Let me tell you what…

We’re not just imagining it. We don’t exist. But, I have receipts. Last year, BetterMe Health Coaching created a “walking program” for women over 45, and midlife women absolutely burst into flames. In the ad, women over 45 were depicted as frail old biddies that could only walk for 15…

Would 1993 me absolutely hate 2023 me or is it the other way around? — As a card-carrying member of GenX, I went to a small state liberal arts college in the early to mid-’90s. …

Grief isn’t just experienced in connection with death. It’s real here, too. — A few years ago, I lost two very good friends within nine months, both from aneurysms. At this point in my life, I had gotten really good at avoiding the processing of other losses in my life, including losing my marriage and my job within six months of each other. …