vertically challenged

"Nora Ephron was Joan Didion for people who didn’t really have their shit together. Joan Didion would never have told us that mashed potatoes were a horrible paradox of a comfort food, because when you’re depressed, the last thing you want to do is peel, boil, and mash potatoes, and if you actually have someone willing to peel, boil, and mash potatoes on your behalf, how depressed can you really be?"