Be Kind to the New Girl

twice you burned your life’s work
once to start a new life
and once just to start a fight
(The Long Winters)
It recently (as of 10 minutes ago) came to my attention that I no longer have any of the archive files from my previous Web sites.
No posts.
No poems.
No short stories.
Everything I’ve ever written is [...]

From the Archives: Risk

[It seems so long ago when I wrote this; I must've been 22? 23? I remember at the time all this seemed like a huge revelation to me; reading it now, my reaction is more, 'Well, duh, no shit, Meredith.' But maybe everyone struggles to come to these realizations -- and then, after realizing them, [...]

From the Archives: Remember When Scott Sort-Of Broke My Jaw? (October 5, 2003)

[It's important that you watch this commercial, all the way to the end, before you read this post, otherwise this story will make no sense.]

Sunday morning, 9:15 a.m.: Scott and I begin imitating Raoul Bova’s flop-on-the-bed routine from the above Gap ad.
Sunday morning, 9:30 a.m.: Scott and I are on our [...]

From the Archives: Posts That Remind Me of Falling in Love With Scott

I Wish You Were Here
If I wake up sleepy at approximately 3:09 a.m. and send you a text message that says something like “I wish you were here” and you show up outside my window a half hour later, there’s a good chance that you are fucking awesome.
[I remember this one, in particular, because I [...]

New Category: Vintage

I’m starting a new category, as of right now, today, this moment: Vintage.
I’ve blogged in quite a few places before, and I have lots of archives of those old posts, some of which I’m kind of proud of, and in relation, kind of sad that they aren’t online anywhere.
So I’m going to break them out [...]