Usually when a troll drives-by to tell me I’m ugly, I let it roll off my back. I don’t care what randos think. I don’t care about today’s rando either. However, I am furious that…
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Day 76 of 200: Some Minor Updates
Update to Day 64: My bowl of glow-in-the-dark candy actually DOES glow in the dark. I discovered this by shining my iPhone’s flashlight on a recently-eaten Kit Kat. I cannot tell you how much this…
Day 70 of 200: Pandora’s Box pt. II
When we last left off, I was discussing my 32-year-old envy for Lisa’s myth about Dandra. Lest you underestimate the enormity of my envy, you should know I never read the myth she wrote, she…
Day 62 of 200: Never Gonna Do This Again
Back in my software days one of my work best friends was a lovely woman named Jess. She was an amazing designer and a great friend. I remember having a particularly bad day once at…
Day 37 of 200: Hello From the Other Side
Of credit card debt that is. After many many many, too many to admit, years of carrying around a ridiculous (to me) amount of credit card debit, I have paid it off. The refrigerator I…
Day 33 of 200: Nothing to Write About is Making Me Cranky
It’s 33 days into this blogging exercise, this warm-up to making my way back to writing fiction for the first time in two years, and boy do I not want to do this. At all….
So I Did a Thing
Since the last time we were together I’m down a tooth and all my hair. These incidents are not related, but they both happened. I start every month solemnly vowing to myself to be a…
How I Almost Totally Could Have Maybe Died in a Cabin in South Dakota
This weekend I ventured to the wilds of South Dakota with my BFK to her family’s cabin in Redfield, SD or near it. I made a big deal about the weekend-trip and the lack of…
Things I Intend to Do This Month
So, let’s be real, I’m failing miserably when it comes to my writing goals. I blame my own inherent laziness and the feeling that the entire world is on fire all the time and nothing…
Petty Bitchery: Out of Control Pop Culture Lists & the Death of Curation
Here’s the thing I want to bitch about today: ridiculous lists. First I know that classifying, judging, ranking art and pop culture is stupid nonsense. So shut up. But it’s fun stupid nonsense and the…