Category Archives: Memoir

I Am Furious Orange

In which Alex Clark gives up smoking and uses the internet as free anger management therapy. Continue reading

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Running For President

In which Diana Spechler recalls her childhood political ambitions and her eleven-year-old breasts. Continue reading

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On Watching Downton Abbey in Jamaica with Richard the Night Watchman, and Other Musings

Lord Grantham in Jamaica, William James in the astral plane, and other unknowable things that Janet Steen has lately been pondering. Continue reading

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Mother’s Day

In which Diana Spechler remembers her ex-boyfriends’ mothers. Continue reading

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Jewish-American Heritage Month

In which Diana Spechler seeks revenge in the Middle East. Continue reading

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My Boyfriend, Jesus

In which Diana Spechler reminisces about her college boyfriend, who thought he was Jesus. Continue reading

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In Honor of National Pot Smokers’ Day

In which Diana Spechler reminisces about illegally buying liquor, and the Boston College student who sold it to her. Love and drugs at the age of seventeen.
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