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Flavor of the Week: Kitchen Confidential

First there was Harrison.We had a broken relationship almost from the day we went from friends to more than-friends, but one thing we shared was a fanatical devotion to great food and drink. He’d recently stopped drinking, so that part was out. My main weapon for seduction was located in the kitchen, and it was time to fire up the decks and cook for him for the first time.

My options were dwindling in terms of impressive recipes since he’d recently given up red meat, so I whipped up a quick but simple menu: Salmon en Papillotte with cherry tomatoes, bright yellow and green squash, a little grated ginger, lime juice and sliced oranges.

I served the delicate parchment-enclosed packets of fish and vegetables over quinoa in place of rice. As I watched Harrison take his first bite, I imagined myself a tiny person in his mouth, seeing the first hot cherry tomato burst, its juices pooling on his tongue and mixing with the fragrant ginger, curling into a drop of lime juice before finally connecting with the silky, fork-tender morsel of salmon.

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Nerds and Sex

Help me out and vote for a sexy picture.

Let me back up. Last week, I accepted an invitation to read at an upcoming edition of the deliciously naughty In The Flesh Reading Series hosted by the one and only Rachel Kramer Bussel (of both Penthouse Variations and Cupcakes Take the Cake).

Asking you to help me pick a sexy photo is funny because I usually go out of my way not to promote myself and my writing based on how I look. But Rachel needs a photo to promote the reading I’m doing on April 15 for Nerd and Sex Night. (Nerd and Sex night! Isn’t that awesome!!)

Anyways, please vote for #1, #2 or #3 IN THE COMMENTS. You can retweet this, post links or whatever, but please leave a comment HERE so I can count the votes tonight and send Rachel the photo and a bio for event promotion purpose.

Option #1 -- "Diamonds on ma neck, di diamonds on ma grill."

Option #2: "Tumble Into You" < I stole that caption from someone.

Option #3: Urban Débutante (Photo Credit: Nick McGlynn)

I have no idea what I’m going to read yet. I haven’t ever written anything about nerds and sex. But here are a couple of things I have written about sex.

The first thing I ever wrote that truly scared me, and the piece I am most proud of:  Snapshots: Heat and Porcelain

The most graphic post I’ve ever written (I  just made this open to the public to read again last night): Copper Kisses, AKA the IUD Blog

Vote away, kids. Think hot and nerdy.

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PS — If you’re in NYC, please put my reading on your calendar. It’s April 15th, 7 p.m. at Happy Ending Lounge.

Copper Kisses (AKA the IUD Blog)

A couple of my girlfriends are considering getting an IUD, and I promised I’d write this blog in time for it to be of use to them. I did my homework over the course of about a year before deciding to go for it in March, and there’s still shit I wasn’t prepared for. This is hopefully going to show up for anyone who Googles “what to expect with an IUD.”

Photo Credit: Liz Henry (via Flickr)

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Snapshots: Heat and Porcelain

“If one woman were to tell the truth about her life the world would split open.” – Muriel Rukeyser

The Virgin

The Virgin

BLOOD AND COTTON

There it was then. If I hadn’t been robbed of my virginity the first time, then this second time definitely did it. There was blood in my underwear. Blood in the toilet water. I didn’t tell many people about this second time because of the first. What virgin gets raped by two different men in the space of 60 days? Continue reading