A monthly advice column by Kristin Dombek. Send questions to askkristin @nplusonemag.com.
August 30, 2016
Does your brother entertain you with witty anecdotes? Does he tell you stories about his day? Does he ask you questions about your own life? Is he contributing anything to this ride situation at all? Or is he sort of sitting there, like some kind of prince who expects to be driven around?
November 7, 2014
Perhaps even now you have already decided what to do.
July 29, 2014
Imagine this paragraph being twenty years long.
Since the age of 12 I have worked forty-five different jobs. I counted for you. No, I am not 300 years old, Bank-robbin’; I worked most of these two or three at a time, like a real patriot, since none of them paid enough to live on. What I will have to say to you, by the end of this, is that anyone who has found a way to transform anger into purpose and even some measure of peace about work has learned to reckon with two contradictory truths.
August 21, 2013
I do not know what you’re waiting for, or why you want it so badly. But what is inside that is so important?
August 21, 2013
It’s cool to try harder now, but what you choose to try harder at matters, and you should always also not give a fuck.
August 21, 2013
It breaks my heart to think that you can feel so close to another person, and then suddenly, they’re not in your life anymore.
