“Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.”  So often we’re always looking ahead to something, or trying to catch up, or worrying about if what […]

Part one here.  When you compliment my outfit and ask something like, “Is it Free People?!” And I tell you it’s from Forever 21, and you say, “Oh…hmm.” via When you tell me the movie was better than the book. via When I’m eating dinner with you and you’re like, “Gah I’m such a fatty, […]

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender Plot: “On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. […]