What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
How even if your life seemed quiet and typical, you never knew if around the next bend you were about to become something spectacular.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Or fall spectacularly in love.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
He got it and left, again apologetically. I kicked myself for sullying our experience together the year before by coming back again. I had replaced the endless ellipses in our relationship with a period. No more possibility, just a final chapter. I thought I’d never see him again. But I would. You just can’t plan these things.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
One of my dad’s best pieces of parenting advice had been very simple: wait. He
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
Before Russia, I thought I was fully cooked. I thought I was who I was going to be forever. But it turned out there was a little part of me that was still pink. That part was a little quieter, and less judgmental, and a lot wilder than the rest of me. Not quite Kristin … more like Kristin-Adjacent. I’d spend the next ten years exploring this other
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life is an endless series of choosing between two things you want almost equally. And you have to evaluate and determine which awesome thing you want infinitesimally more, and then give up that other awesome thing you want almost exactly as much. You have to trade awesome for awesome. Everyone I knew, no matter what they chose, was at least a littl
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A few years earlier, in a panic about the many bikini-clad undergrads with whom a UC Santa Barbara grad student spends his time, I had broken down and read Vito’s journal. (I know.) In it he said that, in two years, after he got his master’s degree, he was going to propose to me. Great news, right? No stories of deflowering teenaged surfer girls! S
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I wanted love, but I also wanted freedom and adventure, and those two desires fought like angry obese sumo wrestlers in the dojo of my soul.
Kristin Newman • What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir
It was the kind of travel chemistry that doesn’t happen all the time, and it all happened because I lost my passport and my plan. If I had gone on the trip I originally booked, I would have been with older, rich, married couples. It was a reminder for me that reinforced my travel rules—don’t overplan, and don’t book expensive trips if you want to m
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