The Real Sarah Miller

When Friends Inconvenience You Do What They Say

I am on vacation at Wrightsville Beach in North Carolina with three other women. Last night, on the way to dinner in Wilmington, our Uber driver was very talkative. Usually not my favorite, but in this case, there were four of us, so just chatting away in front of the guy would have been poor manners. He told us about how some woman he met on an app wanted to go out for snow crab on a first date. He told her that was a second date kind of thing. We agreed.

Podiatrist 1 and Podiatrist 2, written months ago, both times I thought “surely this is my last time here!”

Lately I have been trying to swim faster. It all began when I overheard some guys at the pool talking about YouTube swimming tutorials. When people mention watching YouTube tutorials I generally put my hands over my ears and shout “no no no no no,” so I can’t say I went so far as to actually listen to them. But this notion of one swimming faster tomorrow than one swam today or yesterday or last week was most intriguing. It had always seemed to me that one’s swimming speed was decided at birth.

Listening Like a Centrist Even When Your Foot Hurts a Great Deal

When I was a kid my brother and I used to sit on the back stairs and listen to my parents talk about friends of theirs who were fighting or getting divorced, and I sort of wished my parents would fight so I could see what it was like. It seemed exciting. The apple has fallen far from the tree, and I find myself in an adult experience where fights with romantic partners have been common and unpleasant. I am unable and unwilling at this time to detail in these pages my worst fights.

rec center pool Brooklyn. Not the Y! I was visiting New York and panicked about finding a place to swim there. My swimming situation in Nevada City is not super expensive, and it’s also easy to sign up for lanes and to depend on having enough space since there are only two max allowed in a lane. A few months ago I had advised a friend who lives in Brooklyn on starting a swimming habit and it was clearly a pain in the ass to swim there.

Short interviews rather narrowly focused around one event or small idea. Short interviews rather narrowly focused around one event or small idea.

This essay is good. I almost sold it to another outlet but they wanted to make it shorter and I was like hell no this thing is perfect. The Vagina Analogs Back in November I had a doctor’s appointment where they told me something was probably not wrong with me but then again might be. A month later I had another appointment, this one on the phone, where another doctor explained to me more details about what was probably not wrong with me but might be.