Garden of Anxiety

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Last year, in the middle of the pandemic, I appeared as a dating show guest on a now-defunct streaming service.With cameras rolling, I sat on a teal…
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I don’t enjoy meditating. I’m aware that I’m not ~chill~. One of my legs is always bouncing. I crack my knuckles and bite my fingers. Not my nails, my…
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As seen in The Guardian
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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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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…
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“It’s hard to be an old person,” my great-aunt says on the phone to me. “I spend most of the day calling to figure out how to change my Times…
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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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I have a thing for doctors. I’m drawn to them, for reasons I’ll never understand. Perhaps in a past life I was a WWII nurse who fell in love with a hot…
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And other thoughts he'll soon come to know.
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Welcome to a place you don't want to be.
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Last week my mother and I were at brunch in Fort Myers, Florida. We were talking about drugs and the universe and how there are things we’ll both never…
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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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