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Last Saturday, I was in Boca eating dinner at my Great Aunt Barbara’s. She's 89. Seven years ago, her husband passed away. A few years later, Barbara had a stroke that limited her ability to use her right arm. It also messed up her speech. “Yesses” and “Nos,” she’s now mastered…
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I hate birthday people. The Insta-story reposters and 3-day-birthday-weekenders who go out of their way to make sure that everyone knows that they’re still alive. God-forbid they realize that most of us don’t care. I know I sound like a curmudgeon, the Scrooge of birthdays…
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Six months ago, I sat outside, on a wooden deck in the mountains, across from a white dude with a man bun. “Do you actually think this can fix me?” I…
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Look it up. Tell your friends.
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And other thoughts he'll soon come to know.
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It’s a Wednesday and I’m sitting in a dentist’s chair waiting to meet Dr. Mary Michaels DDS. Dr. Michaels, like all physicians, is running late. And…
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As seen in The Guardian
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When I think of Miami, I think good cocaine, fancy clothes and people who pose for Instagram pictures alongside rented Lamborghinis. I hate all these…
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It's the start of a new year, and it's time to think about who you are and if you're doing it right.
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“Where can we sit?” I asked Jules, the bartender who wished she wasn’t a bartender. “Sit anywhere you like.” A man with few teeth looked up from his…
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Garden of Anxiety

I write stuff that ends up in places like NYTimes, Esquire, and The Guardian, but first, it ends up here. It's non-fiction that reads like fiction.

Garden of Anxiety

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