help me help me help me thank you thank you thank you

Next to "I hate him. He's scum," that's my favorite Ann Lamott line ever (my stripped-down version of it, anyway). The "scum" line is from Operating Instructions, referring to her colicky infant whom we know perfectly well she loves desperately--I remember reading that and thinking, YES! Permission to feel what I feel.

She does it again in a wonderful essay at Salon (if you don't have a membership there, go ahead and watch the little ad for a day pass--worth it). That colicky infant is growing up and still kicking her butt. But Ms. Lamott? She kicks ass. Annie, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me, helping me, helping me yet again.