I realize the irony of me putting the following into a blog post that I also plan to share on social media. In fact, I hesitated before writing this piece, which I originally shared on my newsletter. Wouldn’t I just be adding to the problem? But the response was overwhelming; clearly, I am not alone […]

Listening to a recent episode of Bari Weiss’s Honestly, the following began to write itself in my Notes app, before demanding to be developed fully here. Weiss’s interviewee was Melissa S. Kearney, a professor at the University of Maryland and the author of new book, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling […]

I had the idea for my next book in late December 2019. As with all my major projects, the title downloaded simultaneously into my consciousness before the concept was fully formed: Selfish Cunt. I wanted to write about women not having kids, both in celebration of this alternative life path, and as a way to explore […]

2/21/21 (that was yesterday) is marked “JK Day” in my Google cal. This is because February 21, 2021, based on the pub date of 12/1/20, is Day 83 in my latest book, The Sober Curious Reset, which is an interactive workbook that takes people through 100 days alcohol-free. Each “day” has a different question for readers […]

I had my abortion at age 23. It was 1999; half a lifetime ago. I had been with my now husband, the Pisces, for just three months when I fell pregnant, and I was fitted with an IUD at the time. I had also had my first period in years shortly after meeting him, my […]