Ask E. Jean

When the World Feels Like It’s About to Blow Up, How Do

I'm right where I want to be, with my love on a beautiful autumn day in Garches, near Paris (France that is). The sun is shining and there is wonderful life all around us.

Dangerous Reader! How much of your day do you spend losing your glasses, finding your glasses, changing your glasses from readers to distance to “in-between” (meaning changing the glasses you can read Google maps with while you are driving but can not see the road——and the glasses you can see the road with but can not read the Google maps), shopping for glasses, trying new glasses on, and discovering your old glasses from 1996 look twice as good as your new glasses you just spent $400 on?

Photo by the illustrious Jenny Warburg, one of Gloria’s closest friends.

Me? I can not get into anything today. I could not get into my Tide 4 in 1 Ultra Oxi Pods because it entailed a whole “push down and twist” deal, impossible! Impossible! Then, I get the top off my nice Friendship 1% fat cottage cheese, but could get the condom off the thing, i.e., little filmy wrapper protecting the 16 grams of protein I need to start my day. What is a hungry girl to do? I had to find a stiletto and stab the bugger three or four times. What about you?

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“We are pleased that the United States Supreme Court has declined again to hear this case. As a result, the jury’s unanimous verdict that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and then defamed E Jean Carroll is now final and cannot be challenged in any court.” Dangerous Reader! One old lady can not make a difference. But when that old lady has a team of the most brilliant attorneys in America, and when that old lady has the support of women around the world, that old lady can do the impossible.

Dangerous Reader! Did you study? Hustle for grades? Goof off? And did it EVER occur to you that grades do not mean diddly squat after the age of 23? Leave a comment Bonus: Is Michigan turning young adults into total weaklings? Or are grades bullshit? Leave a comment You know why I write this Substack now? Cuz the answers to my questions are absolutely STUNNING! Why are the answers stunning? Because I have the best commenters on Substack. The New York Times commenters are awesome. But Ask E.

It is remembering things like Feminine Hygiene Sprays that make women in their 70’s and 80’s not give two flying figs WHAT men say . . .

Share Leave a comment Audrey’s husband Mel Ferrer is with her as she arrives back in California in this marvelous Bettmann photo, curtesy of Getty Images.