Cullen left. It’s unclear if he has dumped Melissa. I think he has. (If you missed earlier installments on this story, here's where I find Cullen in Melissa's bed.)
This photo is from when Cullen was excited to be in lots of photos on my blog.

It was the day that a TV writer emailed me about [...]

Welcome to the world-famous board meeting for Brazen Careerist.
For those of you who have not been to a board meeting since I had a miscarriage in the board meeting, let me tell you, this one will not be so interesting. At least at a biological level.
What’s interesting, maybe, is that there is always tension in [...]

First of all, here is a photo of rhubarb cobbler.

And this is my food blog post for all of yeterday's commenters who think I would not be a good food blogger. You will love this post:  it’s about what to do if you think you’re about to be fired.
1. Be really interesting. And fun. It’s [...]

When we are not in the garden, I obsess about how I want to redesign my blog to look like the Pioneer Woman's blog. I want to be the Pioneer Woman on Suicide Watch. That will be the new title of my blog. I am obsessed with stealing her blog design.
Melissa sits in my garden [...]

I can't help being giddy that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the (now former) managing director of the IMF, was whisked off his plane at JFK and  delivered to one of the most notorious criminal holding arenas in the world, Riker's Island. It's a great story about sexual harassment because it's so hard to nail someone like this. [...]

Our neighbor, Kathy, called to tell us to come over for prom pictures.
We had no idea what she was talking about. I told Melissa I was too happy reading Little Bee in the sun. "But," I said, "Kathy is so nice to us. One of us has to go. We have to be good neighbors."
Melissa [...]

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Melissa is back. She stayed with us on the farm a little while over the winter, telling me to shut up, and playing with me in the snow.
I think by now you get the picture that Melissa is one of those people who breaks every rule and lands on her feet. One of the things [...]

I've spent three years writing about how graduate school is a waste of time and money (yes, business school and law school too).  So now when radio and TV producers need someone to bitch about graduate school, they call me.
Here I am on NPR today. I don’t usually post my interviews, but this one is [...]

In case you don’t remember, I really got exhausted doing Brazen Careerist. The pressure was insane and it made me nearly lose my mind multiple times. Now Ryan Healy is running the company in DC, and I sort of miss the startup life — sort of like women endure labor and then a year later [...]