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…
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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…
Things I Read as a Child When I Was Desperate & Out of Books to Read
Last night on the Twitters while in the midst of a discussion about Catcher in the Rye, I confessed that as a child I used to read the TV Guide when I ran out of…
Public School Teachers I Have Known
With today’s confirmation of Betsy “Guns & Grizzlies in the Schools” DeVos, it feels as though public schools and education as a whole are under attack by the the Fascist Turnip and his gang of…
I Was Called Ugly by a Twitter Rando, So Here is a Post About My Hair
I discovered the hair-color changing properties on Sun-In the summer of 1985 and never looked back. My hair had gone from golden blonde when I was a kid to boring not brown or blonde, a…