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I have a bunch of entries in my “drafts” folder, and tonight, I clicked on the first one. August 13, 2014, 3:26 a.m. I wrote it late at night, after my first date with now-ex-boyfriend. I don’t m...

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On the third night of my brother’s wedding, I kissed a friend of the bride’s. So here’s the thing,” he said to me on the dance floor. “You’re super cute but we live really far apart, so I don’t ...

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What do you call an ex-boyfriend you are, once again, dating?  “My ex” had felt foreign on my tongue for so long. A title reserved for other people I had once cared about but who now made me sigh...

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Technically, we broke up in our therapist’s office on a Thursday afternoon. But it wasn’t until that Sunday that the finality of what we—or, really, he—had done sunk in. The rain fell from a gray...

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I went out with my boyfriend and his friends tonight. We went to Bootie SF, which is a semi-raunchy dance club, and I had some sangria beforehand and a vodka cranberry and, later, a vodka orange....

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There are things I don’t say. I don’t talk about how sick I was when we stayed on Tonsai Beach in Thailand. Don’t talk about how I could barely move, I felt so bad. Don’t talk about how I laid o...

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for breakups. My brother and his girlfriend broke up a couple days ago. “Just so you know,” he texted me at 6:30 in the morning, “we broke up last night. I’m flying to Oregon today.” Boyfriend’...

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It’s September, and I realize that I haven’t spoken to Tuesday Night Dinner Date since April, or maybe before. Every time I’ve thought to call him in the past months, I’ve thought about how shitt...

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As soon as it hits midnight on my birthday, it starts. Boyfriend and I are watching iZombie. They’re talking about the Susan B. Anthony coins. “You know what the B. stands for?” he says to me. “B...

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According to the top trendsetters, racism in 2016 is subtle. Not flashy, not too in-your-face. These days, it’s timeless. It’s Christmas morning in San Francisco, my first without my family, and ...

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I’m starting to think that I’ve been in the very dull, subtle depression for a while. There are things that make me happy, for sure, and I’m never sad. I just feel dull, and drained of energy, an...

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So, I have a boyfriend. With the exception of Jason, with whom I lasted 2 months back in 2013, I haven’t been in an actual, defined relationship since 2009 (and that was with Chris, who too laste...

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“He and I were in Target with my girl friend,” I say to my therapist, “and I was trying to help her pick out a body pillow when I said to him, ‘Um. Why is my entire ear in your mouth?’” Next wee...

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On a dead friendship (from an essay I’ve been working on about me and ex-BFF): We’d been so lonely for so long that we decided we were going to be best friends before even meeting in person. She ...

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There have been many riveting moments in our non-relationship, and I’ve been hesitant to acknowledge them - whether in writing or indulging in letting them roll around in my brain - for fear that...

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I told him this story weeks ago, standing in his kitchen with his friend, tipsy off spiced Malibu rum and apple juice: (I’ve told it before here, too.) My brother dropped a feeder mouse into his ...

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So I might be a little bit of an idiot. That guy I’ve been seeing? The one I’m pretty much (ok, it’s a little more than “pretty much”) in love with is not quite so in love with me. Or at least no...

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My bedroom is full of ants. Tiny ants that I thought were sugar ants, only they don’t eat the poison-laced honey I leave for them. Just now, I flicked one off my keyboard. I’ll wake up at 11 on a...

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It happened gradually and then all of the sudden. “I’m trying to decide if I should buy more plastic surgery or freeze my eggs.” I play it off as a joke (“You’re such a weirdo,” he says to me.),...

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Twenty minutes after sending that text (see previous entry), he calls me. I don't answer. Shortly after I receive the following text: "I can't sleep knowing how badly this upset you. I think if ...

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A text I sent tonight after my 4th date with the CEO whose TedTalks I helped edit. Didn't see this one coming: "I don't sleep with someone until I feel ready. I don't want to be a tease, nor do ...

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I dated this guy for two months and during that time experienced the best food and worst sex of my life. I felt like we were fizzling, but he confirmed it by dropping me off at my car one lazy Su...

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