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I Gotta Shut Up and Speak. Every Day.
I keep trying to figure out the exact ‘perfect thing’ to say about the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests all around the world....
Jun 24, 20204 min read


My Puppy-Related Excuses for COVID-Slacking (or All the Dreadful Things I Forgot About Puppies)
I’m assuming that like me, you’ve only checked off about 30% of the items on your pandemic To Do list or else we can’t be friends. What...
May 10, 20206 min read


My Worst Coronapocalypse Purchase So Far
So far, this is my worst purchase of the Coronapacalypse. I say so far because I want to allow myself the license to click a few more...
Apr 17, 20203 min read


Thanks for Staying Away from My Hubby While He Works
All over the country, people in service jobs are still being of service during the Coronavirus crisis. It’s not just the healthcare...
Apr 11, 20203 min read


Isis Gave Me Superpowers (Not That Isis)
Remember back in 1974 when there was a Saturday morning television show called The Shazam Isis Power Hour? Probably not. I’m real...
Apr 7, 20204 min read


Proving Myself to be a Shitty Human Being
You’re going to judge me when you read this story; I know that. But I am choosing to set aside my instinct for self-preservation and...
Apr 4, 20205 min read


Why U2 Could Save the World
For decades, U2 has been ending many of their shows by playing a song called “40.” It’s a simple, meditative song about the desire for...
Mar 26, 20204 min read


Fear is not a license to be an asshole
Yesterday, my Hubby wrote a post on NextDoor about his Coronapocalypse experience at the grocery store. He wrote how he saw people wearing
Mar 19, 20205 min read


Love Letter to a Gritty, Gravelly Goddess
Being old AF, I’m usually pretty far behind the curve when it comes to discovering new music but with Jade Bird, I’m fairly on point thanks
Oct 10, 20193 min read


That Time I Nearly Killed 12 Girls at a Birthday Party
Have you been so passionate about something, so laser-focused on it that you lost sight of your peripheral realities and then the whole thin
Sep 19, 20194 min read


And Yet I Married Him Anyway
This is a love story: 30 years and counting. It is 1978; I am 12-years-old and barely enduring 7th-grade in a sweltering Texas classroom. M
Jul 8, 20193 min read


The Plan for My Auspicious Death at 97
I have known since 1976 that I will live to be 97 years old, just like my great-grandmother. I was 10-years-old when she died and at her fu
May 28, 20195 min read


Mother of Danes (or Why I Sleep with Livestock)
Living with a Great Dane is in every conceivable way exactly like having livestock in our home. Even more so than having a bunch of young c
May 13, 20195 min read


I Swear to You: Dispatch from a Cursing Connoisseur
I have been swearing semi-professionally since I was about 10-years-old. That’s the first time I remember using the word “fuck” and feeling
May 6, 20193 min read














