Permanent Retrograde

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One of the things that keeps me up at night is the fact that my ninety-pound sheepdog has scratched up the floors of the…
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Five months after my husband moved out I went on my first real date. A friend set me up with a director I admired, we’d talked for a week by text and…
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I’ve been physically sick on and off for the past year. My body stopped fighting infections last fall and I’ve been relegated into these bouts of…
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I wake up every morning wishing it was already 8:00 p.m., kids happy, work done, house managed. Full-time work and full-time parenting is an impossible…
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I think I know when gravity disappeared.
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I’m tired of this shit. Something has snapped in me. I used to think there were “cool” people. Now I know nobody is cool. Most people are assholes…
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4 a.m. I generally wake at 4 a.m., make sure I’m not dying, and fall back asleep. 6:50-something a.m. I always wake up at six-fifty-something…
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I am not a morning person. To be fair (to me), if I get to stay in bed for as long as I’d like to in the morning, I am a morning person, but generally…
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I wake up at 5:30 a.m. in a cold sweaty shirt every morning with my boobs growing again and aching. I still think it’s 2019. My skin has metamorphosed…
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I found a non-red lipstick that makes me feel like a beautifully mature French woman. It’s called Devotion, a Laura Mercier color. I apply, tilt my head…
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Dear Anxiety, My intention isn’t to hurt your feelings, but you need to know: everyone hates you. You don’t need to try as hard as a girl on Instagram…
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A few weeks ago I was hospitalized for a septic kidney. This was one day before Bill Clinton was admitted to a hospital for his septic kidney. I have…
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