July 2013 14
WRITING
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  When I was maybe three years old, I wanted to write. I didn’t yet know what being a writer meant. I just wanted to take a pen or pencil and say things with it

June 2013 12
STRESS
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    My cat is pulling out her own hair. I find it in clumps and see the results on her balding backside and tail. It’s stressing me out. In fact, she and I are

February 2013 24
GENITALS AND LOST FAITH
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    Zen Buddhism. It has been a constant source of strength for me since I was 19 and so frazzled by anxiety that I didn’t think I would survive my own mind. Alan Watts,

November 2012 22
Solitude
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Think of the stereotype of people who are alone– the depressed woman in raggedy house slippers, t.v. on, some cats sprinkled around the room. Or the teenager who’s too fat or too skinny or too

October 2012 10
Open Letter to the Taliban
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Dear Taliban, If your fear of women and their freedom compels you to kill, kill me. I’m a sixty- year-old American woman. I probably consume too much of the world’s resources, and I’ve had a