Full disclosure. I havent posted anything in a very long time because, quite frankly, I no longer identify with who I had become in this forum. The Sarah represented on this blog is unequivocally not...
Its always when you least expect it. Or when you dont want it. Like, genuinely dont want it. Actually, saying you dont want it isnt strong enough a sentiment. Instead, "it" always happens whe...
Ive been doing a lot of cleaning house. And not the behind the couch/between the cushions variety (though there has been plenty of that too). This cleaning has been a little more Sarah-centric, a lit...
Its like holding your breath underwater. You try to make it from one end of the pool to the other without so much as thinking of the surface, just to prove to yourself that you can. Still, sooner or ...
Every year, on the night before Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Eve, if you will), wed order pizza and make pies. This tradition started per my suggestion: pizza seemed like the most logical thing to eat ...
I dont know exactly when it happened. Maybe mid-January, when the daylight hours were shorter than menstrual cycles and the whirlwind of Holiday Activity gave way to heaps of boot-printed, dog-shit s...
Its as if we all hate each other, no matter how much the inverse is true. Its as if were all searching for that secret roll, that extra dimple, that unfortunate rub. Its the way we look each other up...
Ive been dealing with pain for about a month or so. This is not a metaphor. Yet. It started in my right hamstring attachment. Then it traveled to my right hip flexor and the right side of my lower ba...
Im the queen of projection. I meet someone and, instead of listening to the little flashing red light incessantly blinking warnings as to why itll never work, I convince myself that they are absolute...
Maybe it happened in fifth grade. Thats when I got boobs. And not any measly training bra boobs. No. I had a full-fledge rack. Think underwire and roundness. Then scold yourself for imagining an elev...
Its a marathon of sorts. Youre at some social gathering somewhere (more than likely a house) and someone catches your eye (more than likely the host). Everyone else becomes blurry and irrelevant. Sti...
Despite everything suggesting that spring is so close you can taste it in the vegetables -- the chirping birds (yes, there are actually many a chirper outside my window) and blue skies and it being s...
Im obsessed with the idea of productivity. Almost every conversation I have with everyone I know becomes a diatribe about artistic potency and how time is spent. Motivation is the manifestation of cu...
I read or heard or figured out on my own that the most effective way to not exhibit unwanted emotional displays is to repeat ad nauseum the very thing you dont want to do. Say youre with a group of n...
File this under anomaly. A dude friend (a rare one who is still morals-pure and relatively innocent and tooth-acheingly sweet) recently had his first one night stand. His initial reaction surrounding...
Last night I saw a dance performance about Narcissus. This got me thinking about the construct of conceit. We all lean on a sliding scale of narcissism, no matter how quick-to-judge we are of others ...
I met my first big love at a bar. I spotted him across the room and, with the confidence only a twenty-one year old can muster, sauntered past him more times than necessary, batting my eyelashes with...
Growing up, I hated Florida. From the weather to the culture to the politics to the people, it was all bla. I couldnt wait to leave. And so, post-college (some things still mattered), I moved to Los ...
Okay. Lets see how many examples I can muster.1) A friend was recently bummed out by a dude. Common story. All things were going swimmingly well. Until they werent. Twenty thousand daily emails and g...
Ive never been one to bite my tongue. Quite the opposite. I stick it out. Far as itll go. Im normally the one who says too much, gushing over every last nuanced thing and wielding words with the reck...
For the past year and a half, Ive been writing a book loosely based on my (relatively) insular experience in LA. I gave myself a year to accomplish this task. I finished the first draft in three mont...
My friends and I have been, if not obsessed, then more than a little curious about that moment when someone stops liking you. We call it The Shift. It happens, seemingly, so suddenly. Everythings mov...
While locked in the sexual rut of monogamy, we all, at one point or another, need something a little more spicy than the familiar. Be it in the form of a favorite porn star or the unrequited love of ...
I am not proud of this. Some time between nineteen and twenty-one, I ended my first very serious, lost-of-virginity, three-plus year relationship. I was in college and kinda square (i.e. perpetual st...
Its just another extension of boredom. Or maybe its like a shot of espresso. Or a pep talk for the body via blood flow shift. Say youre on a deadline or you dont want to eat dessert or you need a nap...
In a society over-wraught with self-help jargon, the notion of "integrity" has become something of a catch phrase. Were told to live with integrity, approach relationships with integrity, end...
Anyone who knows me knows my disdain Los Angeles. While its no ones fault, really, Im happy to have rid myself of that culturally-vapid city. This is especially true in terms of The Car. There is not...
I havent shopped all year. Big deal, you say, its only the beginning of February. True, I agree, it is only the third day of the second month. Still, this is a small feat considering Ive spent an aim...
The scene was ripe for honesty. My best friend, who Ive known for a decade and only see a few times a year, was a rickety table away from me at a decent Los Angeles restaurant. Half a bottle of wine ...
I grew up believing I was the prettiest girl in the world. This, I thought, was not someone elses formulated opinion; this, I thought, was a pure and simple fact, like popcorn scented dog paws or the...
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