So the other day, Lauren Myracle writes to me and says, “I CHALLENGE YOU TO A HALLOWEEN SCARE-A-THON.”
And I was all, “Okay! I’ll do it! Also, what is that?”
Because I will often say I will do things long before I ever have the slightest idea what they are. I find that this keeps things interesting.
So [...]

Right before I left New York, I noticed that the annual “street fair of death” had come to my neighborhood again, with it its questionable, rickety rides designed to thin out the population, one carnival ticket at a time.
Oh, they don’t CALL it the “street fair of death,” because they don’t care about the [...]

You asked! How can I refuse you? I’ve always known you guys were sharp—sharper than me by a longshot. You know that if you only know what to fear, you can fear more effectively.
Maybe you’re asking yourself, “How is it that Maureen is such an expert in what to worry about?”
The answer can be [...]