“I let Susan Miller Run My Life For a Month”

“One week into January, I got laid off. Two days later, I was sued by an actual state after paying my taxes in the wrong one. My in-progress novel—which had been ‘for real, almost finished’ for a couple of years—was still (and possibly forever) in progress. My 10-year-old niece took over my Tinder and got better responses pretending to be me than I got myself.

Basically, for me, 2019 was looking very much like a dumpster