Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Wh... by Heidi Julavits

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"

Heidi Julavits

Image Embed Code

Categorized in : Thinking Today Hate

If you agree with an outside person's interpretation of you, that's a happy bit of affirmation. It means you're communicating externally what you believe to be true internally. If you disagree, it helps clarify how you understand yourself. And maybe makes you productively question how to improve your communication skills.

communication mean believe

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive! by Heidi Julavits

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

archives body ideas

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It... by Heidi Julavits

Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

scrapbooking responsibility mind

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

guy crazy world

I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden.

emotional daughter sleep

I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each other. I thrive on that challenge and that desire.

challenges desire thinking

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish. by Heidi Julavits

I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

books about never internet

During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.

me habit want work