<p>The scene is 2016, March 18th, Friday, early afternoon; my then-15 year old daughter and I are at the Bernie Sander&#8217;s rally held at This is the Place State Park in Salt Lake City, the crowd of 14,000 snaking around as if forever, pedi-cabs (blasting Bob Marley) ferrying people from their distant cars under a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>That today I said goodbye to the most stable and significant long-term relationship of my recent years isn’t so much a story about the embedded loneliness of a shallow culture and the magic of fuckboys as it is about home and family and the almost impossibly-painful commitment of buying in bulk. [She really did smell [&hellip;]</p>

<p>That today I said goodbye to the most stable and significant long-term relationship of my recent years isn’t so much a story about the embedded loneliness of a shallow culture and the magic of fuckboys as it is about home and family and the almost impossibly-painful commitment of buying in bulk. [She really did smell [&hellip;]</p>

<p>That today I said goodbye to the most stable and significant long-term relationship of my recent years isn’t so much a story about the embedded loneliness of a shallow culture and the magic of fuckboys as it is about home and family and the almost impossibly-painful commitment of buying in bulk. [She really did smell [&hellip;]</p>

<p>That today I said goodbye to the most stable and significant long-term relationship of my recent years isn’t so much a story about the embedded loneliness of a shallow culture and the magic of fuckboys as it is about home and family and the almost impossibly-painful commitment of buying in bulk. [She really did smell [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A vintage dress just isn’t the same without a little fur.</p>

<p>A vintage dress just isn’t the same without a little fur.</p>

<p>A vintage dress just isn’t the same without a little fur.</p>

<p>I’m hiking with Oscar and Pica—two dogs I sit for—up Emigration Canyon on a deserted trail I’ve never known. And surrounding us is rustling from bushes and in my latent hesitation, the thoughts start whistling. Is the sound large or small? advancing or fleeing? Will this be that mountain lion up the canyon they warned [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I’m hiking with Oscar and Pica—two dogs I sit for—up Emigration Canyon on a deserted trail I’ve never known. And surrounding us is rustling from bushes and in my latent hesitation, the thoughts start whistling. Is the sound large or small? advancing or fleeing? Will this be that mountain lion up the canyon they warned [&hellip;]</p>

<p>I’m hiking with Oscar and Pica—two dogs I sit for—up Emigration Canyon on a deserted trail I’ve never known. And surrounding us is rustling from bushes and in my latent hesitation, the thoughts start whistling. Is the sound large or small? advancing or fleeing? Will this be that mountain lion up the canyon they warned [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sometimes, when it&#8217;s 9:30 at night and you realize that you accidentally left your Public Storage unit door wide open and the main gate has been locked, the office is closed/not answering and you&#8217;re in the process of moving your kids from their home of 14 years after a year where they both ended up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sometimes, when it&#8217;s 9:30 at night and you realize that you accidentally left your Public Storage unit door wide open and the main gate has been locked, the office is closed/not answering and you&#8217;re in the process of moving your kids from their home of 14 years after a year where they both ended up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sometimes, when it&#8217;s 9:30 at night and you realize that you accidentally left your Public Storage unit door wide open and the main gate has been locked, the office is closed/not answering and you&#8217;re in the process of moving your kids from their home of 14 years after a year where they both ended up [&hellip;]</p>

<p>USPS: &#8220;Ma&#8217;am, we delivered the card to tell you where to pick up the package. That&#8217;s what that card is. We couldn&#8217;t find your house so we sent the package to the nearest post office and mailed you the card to let you know where to get it. That&#8217;s all that is.&#8221; Me: &#8220;yes. right. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>USPS: &#8220;Ma&#8217;am, we delivered the card to tell you where to pick up the package. That&#8217;s what that card is. We couldn&#8217;t find your house so we sent the package to the nearest post office and mailed you the card to let you know where to get it. That&#8217;s all that is.&#8221; Me: &#8220;yes. right. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>USPS: &#8220;Ma&#8217;am, we delivered the card to tell you where to pick up the package. That&#8217;s what that card is. We couldn&#8217;t find your house so we sent the package to the nearest post office and mailed you the card to let you know where to get it. That&#8217;s all that is.&#8221; Me: &#8220;yes. right. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The daughter who starred in this is now 21 and very responsible&#8211;employed and everything&#8211;so I think this 2016 Facebook post reflects her peak &#8220;stoner.&#8221; I can&#8217;t exactly remember but believe she did clean her car that day with “bleach and chemicals”—and thank god for that because how else would she even get cancer?—but it still [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The daughter who starred in this is now 21 and very responsible&#8211;employed and everything&#8211;so I think this 2016 Facebook post reflects her peak &#8220;stoner.&#8221; I can&#8217;t exactly remember but believe she did clean her car that day with “bleach and chemicals”—and thank god for that because how else would she even get cancer?—but it still [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The daughter who starred in this is now 21 and very responsible&#8211;employed and everything&#8211;so I think this 2016 Facebook post reflects her peak &#8220;stoner.&#8221; I can&#8217;t exactly remember but believe she did clean her car that day with “bleach and chemicals”—and thank god for that because how else would she even get cancer?—but it still [&hellip;]</p>