First of all, a woman on Supermarket Sweep just said she had a “six-month-year-old” and I wonder if it still haunts her lo these twenty-seven years. Second of all, I still feel like garbage and…
Date Archives 2018
Day 112 of 200: Nation
The news stories call him Nate, but in my head he’s Nation, because that’s what Jodi Hanson and I always called him. His life has become a news story, and it’s awful. Nation was just…
Day 111 of 200: The Germs Continue to Win
I’m only a little bit pissed that I didn’t start this whole 200-day project a day earlier so that my 111th post would have happened yesterday on 11/11. Damnit. Of course, to be fair, I…
Day 110 of 200: Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people when it comes to getting sick — those who want to be nursed back to health by someone else and those who want to die alone in peace. I’m…
Day 109 of 200: 200 Words Worth of Crankiness
Today I am super cranky. I think it’s combination of not sleeping so well last night, super barky dogs, and working entirely too much over the last month or so. I feel like a really…
Day 108 of 200: On Listening to Sinead’s ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’
I was 16 the first time I passionately stated an opinion and after a grown man laughed at me and said, “Tell us what you really think.” It was Mr. Davids who laughed at me….