Archive | May 2012
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A Year Without Chocolate: On Nutella, Sacrifice, and Sacred Contracts
For me, chocolate is a food group. It is my go-to, feel-good solution to whatever ails me. I am aware that in this respect I am a commercialized stereotype of a woman, but I own it. So, you are now forewarned that you should never leave your chocolate unattended around me (while I have started […]
I left my heart in…. (a.k.a. a gypsy love story)
My husband has often accused me of having “grass is greener” syndrome. I am constantly longing for new locales, broader horizons, bigger things (not material things, goodness knows I can barely manage the stuff I do have). My usual defense is that I am a romantic prone to nostalgia and sentimentality. Also, I am highly […]