Talking to a close friend on the phone a few days ago I saidOverheard is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. You are obsessed with your kids and she said that was an insult.
on a personal note - I confess to be obsessed with the hairs on my chin and around my mouth - but wouldn't tell a soul. Being obsessed with a clean house I am not - walk in my door and you would know in a heart beat.
OMG! Yes, about the hairs! I think I’ve turned into my late mother, who was vain enough to insist that I pluck out her stray chin hairs 2 days before she lost lucidity on her deathbed.
I see a list in the making
Actually a history of it...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo5856991.html
This is a friend's (academic) book
Would life be worth living without our Obsessions? Not for me.
on a personal note - I confess to be obsessed with the hairs on my chin and around my mouth - but wouldn't tell a soul. Being obsessed with a clean house I am not - walk in my door and you would know in a heart beat.
OMG! Yes, about the hairs! I think I’ve turned into my late mother, who was vain enough to insist that I pluck out her stray chin hairs 2 days before she lost lucidity on her deathbed.
Why not?
Don't go to Ohio. It is a sinister land.
"Obsession" implies an imbalanced state of mind, thoughts you cannot control. Most people, I would wager, don't like to think of their minds that way.
not me