When I was in fourth grade, Mrs. Reinking gave me a three in the “Reads widely” section of my report card. It was the 80s elementary school equivalent of getting a C in reading. At…
Date Archives 2018
Day 125 of 200: Blank
It’s 10:30 on Monday night and I don’t have a thought in my head. I thought I had a few, but after typing about 25 words I changed my mind. You don’t want to hear…
Day 124 of 200: The Scheduler
Because I come from a certain brand of Midwestern passive-aggression I have a lot of invite anxiety. More so on the sending invites end rather than the getting invited end. As a kid I remember…
Day 123 of 200: 11 Minutes to Get My Words In
I’ve just returned from Rock & Roll Bookclub, which went way way later than I had planned. If I had thought ahead I would have banged this shit out before I left for Sister #2’s…
Day 122 of 200: The Brothers
I officially ruined Thanksgiving at 2:08 p.m. when I quizzed my libertarian, Trump-voting nephew a little too severely for his tastes and he went upstairs to his bedroom not to return until well after dinner…
Day 121 of 200: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Thanksgiving Episodes Ranked
7. The Quirkducers Louise: How you doing girl? Tina: Um, not great. I feel like my soul has diarrhea. 6. Thanks-hoarding Bob: Gene it’s when you take the backbone out of the turkey and press…