Heather Havrilesky
The Very Definition of Romance (10 Years In)
The bad news is, we have to wait until July before we can hold Heather […]
The God of Tidying Up Hates Me
Buried in a recent installment of Another Week Ends, CJ mentioned the book by sociologist Rodney […]
Another Week Ends: The Purity Witchhunt, March Madness, Punitive Gods, Better Call Saul, The TED Testament and Forgiving Racists
1) “Purity” talk is not just for the Evangelicals, it would seem. Despite the characterization […]
Another Week Ends: Health As Wealth, A New(ish) Take on Addiction, More DFW, Cellular Dependence, and Francis I
1. Whatever form the Law takes, dictated by fickle zeitgeist, it leaves behind a few years later. […]
Considering “Our Mommy Problem”
A few weekends ago I traveled to South Carolina to spend a long weekend with […]
Lonely Ladies and Distracted Dudes: Thoughts on Romantic (and Sexual) Illusion
There’s a line toward the beginning of Whit Stillman’s Barcelona (above – 2:15 mark) where the […]
Salvation by Sweat Alone
An uncannily resonant follow-up to Evan’s recent post about the Church of CrossFit appeared in […]
Play to Order and the Gamification of Parenting
One of the most difficult and awkward things about being a youth minister was billing […]
Another Week Ends: Geistless Zeit, Tony Soprano vs. Walter White, Coach Taylor as Gentleman, Netflix’s PRISM, Marriage Apps, Hemingway, and Christianity as Mark …
1. To start off, Henry Allen over at The Wall Street Journal describes a contemporary cultural inertia […]
Obnoxious Grandmas and (Not) Aging in Style
In her memoir, Disaster Preparedness, mbird fave Heather Havrilesky tells winning story after winning story […]
Another Week Ends: This American Life’s 500th, Dustin Hoffman’s Female Perspective, Midlife Crises, Man-Children, Spitzer, and Chickens
1) Heather Havrilesky, at it again, this time over at Aeon. Writing from the perspective […]
Give Us Your Real (As Long As It’s Fake)
I haven’t been watching American Idol this season, but that’s about to change. In Sunday’s […]
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