I’ve quit many things, jobs, addictions, husbands, smoking, drugs, self-hatred, countries, and friends. I quit drinking at 26, left a well-paid job with New Jersey Bell telephone at twenty-three, divorced two husbands, quit several cities sometimes willingly, sometimes not; San Francisco, Hoboken, Brooklyn, New York, London, Dallas, and, recently, Chicago.
Read MoreFor nearly four months in 2014, I was an English teacher at a private all-girl Emirate high school. The experience was astonishing. This is a lightly fictionalized account of my first month of teaching.
Read MoreBy their very nature, children are entirely solipsistic, i.e., selfish and self-centered. This is a survival quality, a baby needs to be paid attention to, and a child needs to feel they are, however briefly, the center of someone's universe. But this must change, and it should change as early as possible before the idea that their needs and wants are more important than anyone else's.
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