I take all of my seasonal cues from Starbucks. It doesn’t feel quite like Christmas until I cradle that jolly, holiday cup in my hands. There’s not a crispy leaf beneath our feet, yet there are leaves seemingly falling on [...]
Well, it only took two hundred and twenty-two days. The streak is over. I cried in front of my coach. Not the hiccupy, did that just come from your eye or your nose? kind, but tears nonetheless. I was so [...]
Every worthwhile institution has its watering hole of debauchery. It’s a place where individuals with a shared interest coalesce because, well, nobody wants to go home just quite yet. For volleyball players in the South Bay, that honor is held [...]
When people ask you, “What do you do?” what do you tell them? I tell them that I’m a waitress, or that I waitress at so-and-so restaurant, then follow up my answer by mentioning my column until, finally, I disclose [...]
One friend will hand you a tissue and tell you that you need to take however much time you need to reflect, mope, and gain closure – which may or may not include a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Phish [...]
You know that security blanket I was talking about in my column before last? Well, I must have bought mine on clearance, or simply been blinded by bliss and not noticed its rips and tears when it was draped so [...]
“Welcome to Houston”. Those aren’t the words you want to hear when you are flying to a volleyball tournament that’s being held in Siesta Keys, Florida. My partner, Ola, and I exchange terrified faces, which quickly morph into a stifled [...]
We’ve been hanging out a lot recently. A “meet the parents” dinner, surprise stop-ins at my work, countless rendezvous, mornings, afternoons, weekends — the whole enchilada. People ask if I’ve found somebody steady, and although we have no official label, [...]