Dear Darling Ones, Here we are. This is the end of the COVID Diaries, a project I started on March 19, 2020 out of the need to cope with everything going on. Writing is how…
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The COVID Diaries: He Has Risen
Hi Darling Ones, In the middle of my many and varied pandemic depressions, I ordered a tradescantia nanouk named Travis. I’ve mentioned him before. What I don’t think I told you is that the first…
The COVID Diaries: On One Entire Year of Screaming Inside My Heart
Dear Darling Ones, Today marks an entire year of the COVID Diaries. This was a project I started because I didn’t want to forget what it was like to live in unprecedented times. I wanted…
The COVID Diaries: So Long Sweet Valley, Hello Hootenanny in E
Hi Darling Ones, When I was 18 I read A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving for the first time and it changed my life. After that, I quickly read every book by John…
Uffda! This Blog is 20 Years Old Today
Well, fuck. How did this even happen? This blog is twenty years old today. And let me stop you right there fellas who want to tell me about the blog they started in 1998, I…
The COVID Diaries: Amused, Party of 1
The #1 reason I created I Will Dare back in 2000 and why I’ve kept at it for 20 years is because it amuses me. A lot. I was a lonely 28-year-old customer service rep…
RIP Crocker
The only thing I love more than making soup and eating soup is taking poorly-lit pictures of bowls of soup that I made and will consume soon and posting them on Instagram using the hashtag…
Day 159 of 200: I Made This (Holiday Edition)
First of all, you should know that a rabid squirrel died in my chest over night and I am doing my best to cough that sucker out. I should have realized I was getting sick…
Day 130 of 200: The Cuddle Bunch
Today was one of those luxurious days where I had no work I had to do and nowhere I had to go and nobody I needed to entertain. It was just me, The Fellas, a…
Day 95 of 200: Rage Blanket Update
When I was a kid — old enough to understand the news, but still young enough to not totally get it — I remember hearing about the war in Beirut on the news all the…