Hi Darling Ones, When I was a self-destructive twenty-two-year-old college student I used to spend a lot of time on a bench outside of Hibbard Humanities Hall smoking cigarettes. It was the mid-90s and you…
Date Archives April 2021
The COVID Diaries: pity this busy monster, manunkind, not
Dear Darling Ones, My intent today was to write about how much I hate being busy. I was gonna elaborate on how busy people are usually really fucking boring and how nobody wants to hear…
The COVID Diaries: May Be a Side Effect of Moderna
Hi Darling Ones, Last night in the time between putting down Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir and before deciding if I had to turn on Frightened Rabbit*, I had two thoughts. The first thought…
The COVID Diaries: Something in My Veins, Bloodier Than Blood
Dear Darling Ones, I would like you to know I considered “Woah, we’re halfway there” as a headline but went with Wilco because while I was waiting for my vaccine this morning the local oldies…
The COVID Diaries: Anxiety’s Got the Best of Me
Hi Darling Ones, My anxiety is off the charts at the moment, which means I sleep all the time. I have two ways of dealing with anxiety: talking about it incessantly until someone wants to…
The COVID Diaries: Again
So Darling Ones, Here in Minnesota where one cop is on trial for murdering George Floyd, yesterday a different cop murdered Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man in Brooklyn Center (a suburb northeast of Minneapolis)….