Jessica Abrams

You might have days when you're driving down the highway with the sun at a distressingly high angle and, as the car slows due to traffic,...

I called one of my best friends this morning: "I'm feeling like a complete loser and I want you to talk me out of it." It wasn't even...

I once had a boyfriend who made an excellent penne vodka with frozen langoustines from Trader Joe's, and he wouldn't shut up about it. He...

These days, watching television can make me suicidal. It used to provide escape from the pressures of life, television did; I could tune...

August, 2020. I wore two face masks and a head scarf wrapped not once but twice around the lower part of my face to buy oat milk at...

I once knew a woman who claimed that before she met her husband, she made a two-page list of every quality she was looking for in a mate...

I am a baker. There -- I said it. I resisted at first due to a checkered history with self-identifying bakers, those reed-thin women who...

I'm sitting in the kitchen of the Airbnb I've called home for the last two nights. The shades are down and the air conditioning is...

A few years ago when I was visiting a friend in Paris, I went to more than one dinner party where the conversation went something like...

I once had a neighbor, an extremely tall nurse who liked to talk and had great style. Above all, she was organized, and it was enjoyable...

Last night in my acting class, as I was lamenting the shitty job I did on my scene and wondering whether it's still too late to get that...