Posts tagged 2021
Stuffed shells and everything is going to be OK
Stuffed shells and everything is going to be OK

I got some feedback this week. Basically, it went like this: You have communication issues and everyone says so.

HAVE WE MET YES I KNOW

I’m not a New Year’s resolution kind of person. This is because I have not been able to keep resolutions, and each subsequent failure compounds my sense that This Is Just The Way It Is and I Will Always Shock People With How Unprofessional I Can Be. These are some past resolutions:

  • Stop talking.

  • Lead with empathy.

  • Be a better person.

  • Go in with humble inquiry.

  • Stop talking to my parents about financial issues.

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Chocolate ganache tart and WTF 2021
Chocolate ganache tart and WTF 2021

I spent most of 2021 hawking my book, You Look Tired: An Excruciatingly Honest Guide to I Don’t Even Remember Right Now. Some cool shit happened:

  1. I got paid $70,000.

  2. Badass writers Jancee Dunn, Bunmi Laditan, and Meaghan O’Connell blurbed it.

  3. Badass writer Beth Spotswood at the San Francisco Chronicle did a Q&A with me that ran in the Datebook section (the storied Sunday “Pink Pages”).

  4. Some very cool radio stations and blogs had me on as a guest and interviewed me (thank you, every single one of you content creators and art lovers!!! Except the prime-time Republican with the sound effects who tried to get me to talk about how much “we” hate women who “lose all the baby weight”).

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