London 01
On Sunday afternoons my dad used to watch boxing on a tiny black and white tv at the kitchen table. I’d argue with him about it because that was time I wanted him to spend with me. So I’d sit and watch with him and I’d have an internal argument between the part of me…
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We are still allowed to walk. In a city like Houston, where people are generally more than 6 feet apart already, it seems unlikely that the freedom to be outside will go away in the coming weeks. It is not a walking city, but the streets are now more bare than ever. There is a…
Read MoreTexas 09
I had a panic attack for the first time when I was 26. I was sitting in a theater with my friend Olivia, watching a play at the school where we were studying acting. It was set up as theater-in-the-round and the seats were situated stadium-style in such a way that once the show began, you…
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I feel like writing every week is this exercise of having something I feel embarrassed about, then finding all of the reasons I shouldn’t write about it, then becoming obsessed with that idea to the point that it would be impossible to write about anything else. Sometimes I’ve come to a liberating conclusion by that…
Read MoreTexas 07
I’m having tea on the patio at the quietest, most remote coffee shop I know in Austin. There’s a music venue next door that is usually quiet during the day, but it’s SXSW and music is crammed into every corner of the city. Literal near-perpetual screams are punching at the doors from the most punk…
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I was driving to my first voice lesson in over a decade… …listening to Adam Carolla give an interview on a podcast about his time as one of the hosts of LOVELINE. He was the comedic foil to the sex therapist and general piece of styrofoam Dr. Drew. Adam was saying that after ten years…
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