I want to crawl into your skin, have you slip and slide into mine. Yearning. Raw. Burning. Impossible. Necessary. Air sucks at our skin. Invisible winds buffet us, forcing us to touch – a weak excuse for a constant need. Safely in darkness, eyes escape contact. Nothing else does. You make a confession. I admit [...]
Let Them Eat Cake
A friend of mine got married last week. I wasn’t able to attend, due to this entirely inconvenient thing called a job, but I did find myself thinking a lot about weddings in honor of her big day. I’ve never been married myself, not even close. But I love the hope, promise and commitment that [...]
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Guilty Pleasures
How many times have you prefaced a comment about something you love to watch, purchase or do by calling it a “guilty pleasure”? I was recently talking to some friends about our favorite television shows – not the most profound of conversation topics but one in which Angelenos frequently engage – and I was struck [...]
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Best 09: Day Four
What is the best book of 2009, the book – fiction or nonfiction – that touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies? I must admit, I judge a book by its cover. If the picture isn’t aesthetically pleasing to me, if the typeface isn’t interesting, [...]
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Romance with Robitussin
I just spent the entire weekend rolling around under the covers with the sweetest and smoothest of feel-good companions. Every four hours, like clockwork, this potential soul mate and I played tonsil hockey. We were oblivious to the piles of take-out containers and Kleenex accumulating around us. So in synch were we, I forgot to [...]
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