I got sober. Life got big.
This counts as a messy desk for me, believe it or not. I'm slightly stressed just looking at it now. I'm nearly finished with the draft of my next book, a memoir about the twelve years I worked for Amazon as, you know, a woman. I have a fairly granular list of what’s left to…
Continue reading ➞ Day 2,920: Events in the History of Female Employment; or, a Book Update
The asterisk above is because after I labeled my last one Day 1,917, Belle commented that she had it as 1,931. She's way more likely to be right than I am, so I'm adjusting. It's actually the second time in the history of Off-Dry that I've realized the day count was off. You wouldn't think…
Last week I was seated at a dinner next to a woman who's writing a recovery memoir. When she found out I'm a published memoirist, she had questions about how I'd structured my book to make publishers like it. "Did you put the message of yours up front?" she asked. "Or tell the story first…
"Why does this never get any easier?" I groaned to my trainer last week in the middle of deadlifting. He looked confused. "Well, because we keep adding weight to the bar. You could only lift half this much a year ago." I had to concede his logic, even if it didn't really answer my question.…
Well, hi there! It's been a month since I published this essay, which was also the subject of my last post here. In case you haven't been following along--because why would you?--it went viral. Really really viral. A blow-by-blow would be both dull and likely inaccurate, but suffice to say that after literally thousands of emails…
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