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Last night my friend Amy turned to me during a boys-behaving-badly scene in a movie we were watching and said, “I hate all men.” And I said, “I hate all men, too.” And then, under my breath, I said the very next thing that popped into my mind: But not my husband. My husband is a wonderful man in a very real and non gender specific …
Two things have been incredibly difficult for me to resolve in my mind around the sexual assault revelations of the past few months. The first is statements like this: It’s just tough because you think of the impact that The Cosby Show had on black America at the time and forever after. You know Louie C.K. put Tig Notaro on the map. We wouldn’t have …
December 8th marks the 10th birthday of this blog, my blog. I’ve decided it will also be the last official day of posting. After a full decade of writing, it’s time for this chapter to come to an end. Why? Because 10 years is an amount of time that makes me incredibly proud. Because new creative projects have become important to me, like focusing more …
A few months ago my Dad called. “Was it all a bad dream?” I asked before I even said hello. He laughed but said no. This was not his own Bob Newart moment. He did, as the doctors had suspected, have cancer. I’m sure we both said a lot of other things after that, but I don’t remember anything until this: “But, I have an …