How I Uncovered Long Forgotten Meaning in Our Family’s Christmas Traditions

I was 8-years-old when I realized there was no Santa Claus. I’d lost the Snow White watch I’d received for Christmas—the one with the yellow leather band that came with a plastic figurine of my favorite Disney character. Sitting at breakfast some months later, I confessed the watch was missing. Read more

Hello, Lover

She’s there, standing right there in front of him And the two steps forward separating their paths seem less heavy And less likely to cross than the Brooklyn Bridge In his steel toe Timberlands Waiting by the curb, twiddling her restless fingers Making fists inside her down coat pockets, and Read more

Male Birth Control: Another Reminder that Women are Inferior

A clinical trial of contraceptives for men was brought to a halt after it discovered that: “the risks to the [male] study participants outweighed the potential benefits.” Now, if you are a woman, like myself, who chooses to use oral contraceptives despite their adverse effects I imagine that you were Read more