As I cheerfully sauntered into Sing Sing Karaoke Lounge & Suites on St. Marks at 2:30 in the morning with my quick-witted, always-amiable, fun-lovin’, 35-year-old boyfriend and my chubby, ever-so-cuddly, pony-hair-purse-carrying, “joyous” friend Fredy, I never expected to see a strapping young man down on his knees amid the spilled sake and beer singing passionately […]

Obviously, I didn’t learn anything from my last post, for my obsession with perfection is as persistent and as torturous as ever.
Almost every day for the past three months, I’ve tried to write something… something funny, something meaningful, something memorable, something at least somewhat entertaining– SOMETHING! Anything! But nothing. Nothing has come of my […]

Broken, brittle, and colorless, my life, I mean…my nails unarguably needed a quick fix, so I decided, against my itsy-bitsy budget, to buy myself a little fret-free me-time at the new, non-English-speaking nail salon down the avenue from my apartment.
“This is going to be PER-FECT,” I thought as I stood outside the salon gazing […]

Consider this: After excessive martini intake on an empty stomach, your so-called “better” judgment inevitably disappears, and sans hesitation, you agree to accompany your Friday-night date back to his apartment to “watch a little TV and sober up” before stumbling on home. Fine, no problem.
When you arrive at his dorm-room-esque studio, he asks (wearing a […]

2002, NYC.
Twenty-two-year-old, northern-suburb-of-Chicago girl finds herself single and friendless in the Big City.
Her mother urges her to return home. She refuses.
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“I had it all when I moved to Manhattan,” she says, sniffling. “Enthusiasm, confidence.”
Sadly, months later, she lost it all, becoming a woman she no longer recognized, no longer loved.
“But […]

Pop! Gone. Vanished. No more “Bubbles.”
Twenty-five years young, and the pep from my (more often than not) perky personality has been sucked dry.
Watered down by worries, I’m drowning in quarter-life. Money, men, wrinkles, work. Somebody, please. Throw me a lifesaver!
Back in high school, I unarguably had a bubbly personality. […]

Everyone knows Mike.
He’s that guy you feel so comfortable with…the guy you’ve known “for, like, forever.” The one who gives you goose bumps in 90-degree heat…the one who makes you laugh uncontrollably at something only mildly funny…the one you liked a lot, the one you loved as a friend, the one you realized was…um…
Yep, […]

You know you’re a goner when he accidentally leaves his shirt at your apartment, and you (know it’s wrong and weird…but you) sniff the collar to get a whiff of his intoxicating scent, or when you secretly kiss his picture (that you’ve hidden beneath your bed so he doesn’t […]