Lina

I'm all about Lamaze classes/baby showers/“parenting skills”/preschool anxiety all the way up to college/transitional phases/timeouts/chronic credit-card debt/the indiscriminate wearing of athletic garb/political correctness/anti-political correctness/midlife crises/couples therapy/divorce mediation/Botox/dermatological fillers/cosmetic surgery/the new-and-improved menopause/wearing sunglasses in winter even though you’re not famous/comb-overs/an obsession with the daily lives of the celebrated and merely notorious/real estate as a means to an end/a debilitating reliance on takeout dinners/a preference for esoteric coffee beans/an aversion to butter/an uneasy feeling of identification with Bob Dylan/a denial of death/cilantro, cilantro, cilantro/framing every photograph you’ve ever taken/the belief that your dog/cat is you/an excessively personalized vision of retirement/older single mothers/grandfatherly second-time fathers/a fear that you’ve become your mother or father/a free-floating feeling of grievance that you’ve failed to make obscene amounts of money as a hedge-fund manager/a gut instinct that immortality might be just around the next technological bend