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I have hit rock bottom. I eat normally at work every morning, but then, in the afternoons, I continue my habit of cupcake-sundae deliveries and later go home and close the door and rid myself of myself. I don’t remember when it began. Probably sometime in the past two months when every minute of ev…

I used to look away from the television whenever a player was injured on the field. I told myself it was not part of the game, the clock was not running. I was wrong. The clock is always running. As Saban just said, there is no off-season, and there are no off minutes. So you don’t get to play with…

Mom used that phrase again: tīnghuà. Which means listen words. Obedient. Submissive. The first time I told her I felt controlled in my relationship with Josh, she had said to me, “Good. You’re a wild child. You need a man to tame you.” I could not understand why she had seemed partial to Josh till …

ALL I WANTED when I was a child was for my parents to pay attention to me. They did not have time to play with me, certainly never during the week, so I spent my time playing by myself, flipping through my mom’s GRE books, doing logic puzzles, reading, planning, and waiting for Saturdays. I would b…

More rhetorical questions: Vince, the president and CEO of a major New York cultural institution, courted Boone through a warm intro. The institution needed money for renovations; it was hoping to better conserve its collection. Vince invited Boone to private tours and special dinners, all of which…