La Belette Rouge

It’s my Pi day and i’ll be irrational if I want to

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:58:26 +0000

I am unapologetically hubristic about my bithday you see, my birthday is the best birthday of the year, certainly not because it is my birthday, no it’s the best because it is 3.14 and that is Pi day. My birthday is about circularity and irrational numbers, and, of course, pie. This birthday even more better [...]

Sex and infertility: How infertility f%@!d up my sex life

La Belette Rouge — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:58:20 +0000

Okay, kids, this one is personal. Yeah, I know…they are all personal. But this one is REALLY personal and I sort of can’t believe that I am writing this and I am not sure exactly why I am sharing this with you now— other than I am sure that I am not the only person [...]

This Post is Not About Morrissey: Please Let Me Get What I Want, Version 2013

La Belette Rouge — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:02:06 +0000

This post is not intended just to be a place for me to gloat about having the incredible fortune to see Morrissey perform live in L.A. on Friday night, or to tell you how unbelievably AWESOME it was to sit just eight-rows away from him and to be able to see his eyes when he sang, [...]

“Just adopt”: Four women take on the topic

La Belette Rouge — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:58:16 +0000

Last week I got a comment on a post of mine that was about moving on and letting go of the hope of having genetic offspring. This was a post in which I was talking about how I was managing to move from grief into acceptance and, ultimately, into a happy ending. The comment that was [...]

The psychological significance of your purse, phone, and other seemingly ordinary objects

La Belette Rouge — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:41:23 +0000

Life is one big Rorschach test, as far as I am concerned. When out in the world I may look like I am shopping or doing chores, but in fact, what I am doing while I do those things is reading ordinary objects as a way to understand the unconscious aspects of people that I see [...]

Fork U: Choice, cheesecake, adulthood and the importance of anxiety

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:39:20 +0000

The day I enrolled in Fork U was a bad day. I was in a bad mood, a really bad mood. I might, to you, seem like a nice-enough person who is incapable of channeling Beelzebub or any other lower-level deities that might or might not inhabit Dante’s Inferno, however, on this day that I [...]

Shopping for Change: Transformational Objects

La Belette Rouge — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:54:42 +0000

One of the first essays I ever published was a piece called “The Search for Sacred Accessories”. The editors at Mode Magazine sadly did not get how clever the title was and they changed the name of the piece to “Practical Magic”, which was a pretty lame title if you ask me. My essay was [...]

Intentions 2013, the Spice Girl Edition

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:23:10 +0000

Last night Keith and I were going to dinner and I was driving there, only I didn’t know where there was. I asked him where we were going. “I don’t know,” he answered. “Well,” I said somewhat seriously, “then I will just keep driving until we figure it out.” Keith tried to be helpful by [...]

Fear is my friend

La Belette Rouge — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:34:50 +0000

A gazillion years ago, when the Golden Girls was a prime time show and there was no such thing as the Internet( yes, I am that old) I remember buying, and maybe even reading, a book by Susan Jeffers. I can’t tell you one thing about the book. Truly, I am not sure if I [...]

Time Traveling in New York City

La Belette Rouge — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:05:59 +0000

Imagine the scene, if you will, an ultra-chic Upper-East side eatery, and it is the hour of the beautiful people. Everyone in the restaurant is impossibly chic and beautiful and glittering in the glow of understated fabulousness. They sit shoulder to shoulder sipping Syrah and dining on Dover Sole and Veal Ragu over a Swiss [...]