I stared at the screen, numb, while my husband tried to explain again the surreal website he found. “You put these ice caps on your head...

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While my doctor’s fingers massaged my breasts and cradled my almond-sized lump, we had a peculiar conversation. She was from the Bay Area...

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I remember when Gary and I were broke. The night before Christmas, five minutes before closing, we headed into the Christmas tree lot to...

1. It’s okay to call God Gertrude and to come to the glorious, scandalous, liberating, unCatholic realization that God might be a woman....

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Ask any fourth grader. Unfairness is what pisses people off. It’s not infuriating when no one gets candy. It’s infuriating when one...

This week I heard a familiar voice on KQED Public Radio – one of my former tenants was being interviewed. I’ll call him Frank, but...

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