The Sky Was Electric Blue Above The

I Am At My Worst Trying To Write About Things That Overlap With My Life.

Too Clear, Too Clean. The Problem Was Precision, Perfection.

Everybody Sounds Stoned, Because They're E-mailing People The Whole Time They're Talking To You.

There Are So Many Ways To Go Wrong. All We've Got Are Metaphors, And They're Never Exactly Right. You Can Never Just Say. The. Thing.

I Don't Think That All Girls Seek The Influence Of Older Men, But I Think Girls Whose Fathers Are Absent Or Recessed From Their Lives Often Do. And Honestly, When I Was Growing Up, Fathers Were Generally Pretty Absent From Their Children's Lives. We Didn't See A Lot Of Them. That May Be Something That Has Genuinely Changed For The Better In Our Culture: Men Are More Present For Their Children Now That More Women Are Working.