Six of Cups

The Pinterest algorithm thinks I’m a SAHM (which only after googling do I discover means “Stay at Home Mom”) who has spent the last six years planning Jesus-forward gender reveal parties for my eighteen young daughters

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Five of Cups

Special Early Edition! A conversation about grief with writer Lily Diamond.

Four of Cups

What is melancholy if not the emo longing of a suburban girl gaslighting herself?

Emily St. James, three of cups, minor arcana, tarot

Three of Cups

A conversation with Emily St. James about friendship, compersion, AMC's Rubicon, famous shipwrecks, and Emily Stone.

Two of Cups

My parents deliver wisdom about marriage and partnership.

Amber Tamblyn, Cups, Minor Arcana, Ace of Cups

Ace of Cups

A conversation with Amber Tamblyn on writing, being a child actress, killing your darlings, Brittany Murphy, business daddies, Xanax, mentorship, the election, and our shared eternal quest for external validation

The World

A week ago my last living grandparent died. Annie Atkins Clark was 98 years old, and up until just a few weeks ago, she’d been healthy, sharp, and full of life.

Judgement

A wide-ranging conversation with writer/director Liz Garcia about writing, motherhood, filmmaking, expectations, patriarchy, the creative process, grief, and more.

The Sun

Is it hard to be a mother?

Bonus! VPR Major Arcana

In honor of VPR Tuesday and the final reunion of season 11, here is the Major Arcana as seen in Bravo's Vanderpump Rules.

The Moon

An interview with Philip Ettinger about OCD, art, the creative mind, learning to trust the subconscious (even when it's out to get you).

The Star

A conversation with the other Eliza Clark, celebrated author of Boy Parts and Penance, about the creative process, our younger writer selves, hierarchies of power, the banality of evil, and our strange nominal connection.

The Tower, Vanderpump Rules, Scandoval, Ariana Madix, Scheana Shay, Tom Sandoval, Raquel Leviss, Major Arcana

The Tower

A dissection of Vanderpump Rules's Scandoval as seen through a Tower lens.

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The Devil

The Devil promises that bangs will give you a whole new life.

Temperance

Missi Pyle on moderation, box breaths, heartbreak, fertility, chinchillas, people pleasing, ADHD, meditation, stand-up comedy, and more.

Death

If you ask my son what happens after you die, he’ll tell you confidently that you’re sucked up into a portal in the sky and then you come back down to earth as a baby.

The Hanged One

A strike is, by definition, an exercise in sacrifice and collectivity. Let's talk about the 2023 WGA strike.

Justice

This was the beginning of the undoing of the story of America I'd been told.

Wheel of Fortune

Is change possible? Are we capable of growth? Are we the product of our upbringing, the miracle of our birth, the circumstances of our families, a collection of our petty or significant traumas?

The Hermit

I was yearning for solitude, for some time to process and move through the terror and joy and grief of the past few years. And because my brain processes through creation, but my writer’s mind refused the call, I had to build something else.

Strength

Raising children in a world that constantly reenforces the idea that strength is brutality, control, and power, is a Sisyphean task. Brutality is not leadership, control is an illusion, power can be taken away.

The Chariot

Aging is a sloughing off of fucks given. Each birthday, I shed a new layer of fucks, until eventually, I’ll care only about joy, pleasure, and freedom.

The Lovers

There’s an undefinable quality to love. It’s hard to put into words, because words build walls around feelings, words make something concrete, and love is a slippery amorphous ever-changing thing.

The Hierophant

There were lots of things I liked about church — the singing, for one thing, and the pageantry (Catholicism is wild — you eat the literal body of Christ and wash it down with a sip of his literal blood).

The Emperor

“The Emperor represents total power, the divine masculine, the cosmic father. He is authority and order, regulation and rationale. He reigns over systems of knowledge, discipline, strategy, and law. His rule is resolute, yet paternal. The Emperor relies upon structure and control to create security and stability. He protects and