[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I knew someone once who was not a friend but not not a friend, and they happened to...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] This post is arriving a day late and a dollar short, which is both a common idiom and...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I once went on a date with a man who diagnosed my eccentricities succinctly, "You're an...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I grew up in a small town of about 1,200 people in rural Northwestern Wisconsin. There...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I really hate writing sometimes. Not because I write bad things (I do), or because I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I listened to a podcast awhile back about a guy who lived alone in the forest for 42...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Tell me if this sounds familiar. A man or woman breaks up with you, or you break up with...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I hate people," I told my friend the other day, "I really, really do." "I hate people,"...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “If you have to wonder,” she said, “you might already know the answer.” She wasn’t...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I never knew what I wanted to be, which is probably how I ended up being a writer. I grew...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "Are you first class?" a man asked me at gate 42 in terminal A at the Atlanta airport. I...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I can tell the darkest and most terrifying truths about human nature with zero...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] For a very long time I tried to be someone I wasn’t so that people would like me: so that...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other night, I had a dream that there was a demon living in my basement. I don't even...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I met a man last summer by happenstance. I was running through the Grand Canyon, and he...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] This is a timely and important question. I've thought about words as violence ever since...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I feel the need to preface this blog with a disclaimer: emotional incest (also called...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Well hi, there. The first therapist I saw after the dissolution of my engagement politely...

[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] When I was a sophomore in college I took an elective class called the Sociology of...