Dear Internet friends,

It’s been great. I think you’re swell. However, I need a little space.

I’m going to be taking off from the Mercury for three months to work on a book about relationships. Whenever I look for relationship advice, wandering distraught and slightly drunk through Powell’s Red Room on a Friday night, I’m reminded that most relationship books are horrible. I can’t think of anyone I know who wants their romantic life to center around snagging a man and an engagement ring. What about a little help, please, for those of us who don’t want to define success by two kids, a holy union, and a minivan?

So, I’ll be spending the next three months interviewing smart sex and gender writers (and lots of other people, too) about how they make decisions in relationships and compiling their life lessons into a book that spells out rules for relationships that aren’t based on religion, tradition, or “thou shalt not.”

This means I’ll be in Blogtown exile for three months. I’ll still be doing a weekly sexual politics columns, though, and I’ll still be on the internet all the time, every day. Try to be nice to my enthusiastic replacement, Alex Zielinski. If anyone wants to get really-short-notice-sort-of-goodbye drinks, I’d love to see you at Give a Shit Happy Hour tonight!

Hugs,
Sarah Mirk

Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.

12 replies on “Just Letting You Know I Haven’t Been Fired.”

  4. Good luck with the book and the interviews and writing it and everything! That is fantabulous news, deserving of high-fives and cheer.

  5. When you’re a lonely spinster burning in the lake of fire, you’ll wish you’d listened to those other relationship books.

    Enjoy the break/change of pace.

  6. What a fun idea! Have you considered a cross-marketing deal with The Humane Society? You could include a coupon for cat adoption in each book, and they could stock the book at their centers.

  9. Anyone else find it ironic that in leaving us (me) to work on a book on relationships…she’s neglecting her relationship with us? *sigh*

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