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A Partial List of Topics We've Fought Over, by Nancy Stohlman

1. Why it’s none of my business if you move to Denver
2. Why we should all move to Mexico City
3. Why we should take my ex to court for full custody so we can move to Mexico City
4. Why you shouldn’t have to pay for American Schools for Van in Mexico City
5. The word “compassion”
6. The Dalai Lama
7. Wendy
8. Xenia
9. Leaving my shoes in the middle of the living room
10. Rewinding library video tapes
11. Abortion
12. Christianity
13. Which midwife to have
14. Why you shouldn’t have to pay for my health insurance
15. Why you shouldn’t have to pay for my son’s health insurance
16. Felipe
17. Cigarettes
18. Grad School
19. Why you can’t quit your shitty job
20. Green card
21. How many lights to use on the Christmas tree
22. Whether or not we should even have a Christmas tree
23. Why Christmas is a stupid holiday
24. Why Thanksgiving is a stupid holiday
25. Whether kids should be allowed to eat extra candy on holidays
26. How much of your money I spend
27. How I don’t care about the fact you have to work a shitty job and live in the U.S.
28. Johanna
29. Jill
30. Sex
31. Celibacy
32. Utah
33. Bob Dylan
34. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
35. Marijuana
36. Writing Group
37. Whether going out and drinking at bars is fun
38. The Symphony
39. Disciplining children
40. Why we should take my ex to court to get more child support
41. Where to go on vacation
42. The fish
43. The DVD player
44. Porn
45. Sex
46. The blue turtleneck
47. The 1984 play
48. How to sing that Sinead song for Mark and Val’s wedding
49. Why you don’t support my singing
50. Why you’re jealous of me because I am a working artist
51. The shitty caterer at our wedding reception
52. The Chevy Lumina
53. The Chevy Metro
54. The Chevy Van
55. Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
56. Fidel Castro
57. Trotsky
58. The Artist’s Way
59. The 2004 Elections
60. Whether or not we should talk to Republicans
61. Las Vegas
62. Herpes
63. The bathroom contractor
64. Why you don’t like amusement parks
65. Santa Claus
66. Ice Skating
67. Laptop computers
68. Whether or not to eat pate
69. My mother
70. Your mother
71. How I don’t love you
72. How I don’t understand you
73. How I don’t appreciate how much you’ve sacrificed your life for me
74. Trivial Pursuit
75. Spending money on anything
76. Your depression
77. Christianity
78. Sex
79. Money
80. France
81. Mexico
82. The word “abusive”
83. How to spend our Tax refund
84. Why we should/shouldn’t wait in the ridiculous 2-hour Eiffel Tower Line
85. The word “ridiculous”
86. Buying a house
87. Buying a couch
88. Reading each other’s journals
89. Reading each other’s emails
90. Reading each other’s email’s again
91. Checking up on each other’s phone calls
92. Whether or not I should move out
93. Whether or not I should come back

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