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Ever since I dumped my eighth-grade boyfriend, I've been single on Feb. 14. I also couldn't make homemade pasta. Turns out, these things are related.
  • Don't worry, I'm sure the jinx will happen

    Maybe, just maybe, if you've really spent every Valentine's Day alone, it has something to do with whatever drives you to share such intimate information with the world as a way of making a living. Maybe if you could keep something so allegedly important in your live for yourself, instead of packaging it for consumption for the world for a buck, simultaneously ignoring boundaries and being loudly self-involved, then you could concentrate enough to make pasta and connect with other people.

    As it is, I think you may have cursed whatever you have by transforming it into another trite Salon moment. And in a way, this pleases me.