Anxiety. A ferocious emotion. I lived with it for years. My first bout came in my early twenties and was nearly incapacitating. It’s what drove me to therapy. And while […]

  In Florida, at 9:13 pm, while innocently reading my book after a long day of visiting my mother, some 90-year old couple in the apartment above me started making […]

Stuck. That’s my takeaway whenever people tell me why they CAN’T do something they have a deep yearning for. I’ve been anxious for two thirds of my life, but I’ve […]

“If I had a mother like me, think what I could have become!” That’s what I say to my children, now that they’re adults. It’s usually precipitated by me trying […]

“I have phone sex every Tuesday.” That’s what I reply in exasperation to Funk and the kids whenever they text me just before I’m about to get on a call […]