What is love?

It's a lot rn

We’re talking about boundaries and truth in the writing group.

I’m teaching this class on Labors of Love, starting in a few weeks.

I wrote this a few days ago and it blew up fast, I suppose because we’re all pretty tired of this shit:

The banality of white male rage

Thank you to

Tawny Lara

for including me in this thoughtful and necessary piece on postpartum publishing.

And thank you

Maggie Mertens

for this tender review of Touched Out, both about and written with love:

Nomination for Entry to the Feminist Canon No. 1

Please keep leaving your own reviews at the bad places, Amazon and Goodreads, it helps people find the book?

Photo by Alexandru Acea on Unsplash

But let’s talk about LOVE, because isn’t that the theme this week? Suddenly everyone is talking about parenting and sex and yes, I absolutely take all of the credit for this!

But really, every day there is a new take on marriage and divorce. In part because Emily Nagoski, who says you can skip sex, has a new book about desire out.

Though even Emily Oster is also talking parenting, sex, and feeling “touched out,” and I’m not sure what to do about that.

Very generally, I say, keep it all coming, although not from this guy. Yes, marriage seems to be in crisis, but maybe heterosexuality (and the people who practice it) is just looking hard at itself. I have been reading this book, which reminds readers from the jump that panic about marriage is not new.