My Substack

This past weekend, I did something I swore for years that I would never do. I went to my 20-year high school reunion. The day I graduated, I decided that I never wanted to look back. It had been four years I didn’t enjoy (big hair, hormones,…

I once got cornered by an oversharer at a conference in Chicago. It started over pizza on Thursday night, and by Sunday morning, I knew every single bad thing her mother ever did to her. All I did to spark it was eat a lot of pizza: “How can you eat so…

In April of 1942, a young woman who was eight months pregnant was widowed suddenly. Her husband, just 42, died of high blood pressure (there weren’t any drugs to control it as there are now). She already had an 8-year old girl and an 11-year old boy at…

Sometimes I think I’m living a double life. I mean, I’m not nearly cool enough to be a double agent. Or a superhero with a secret identity. But I do have a daily duality: two fairly different types of clients that have very little to do with each…

I’ve recently become a little obsessed with the universe. Maybe it’s because my kid keeps asking me where the world came from. Maybe it’s early-middle-age desire to more fully understand my place in the world. Maybe I just need a new…