Hello Darling Ones, While I was doing my taxes last night one of my twitter pals expressed an interest in my Top 10 Music Memoirs List. Because the only two things I need to do…
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The COVID Diaries: That One Time at Bible Camp
Dear Darling Ones, I went to Lutheran bible camp the summer I was fourteen or fifteen, which is exactly where you’d expect a Catholic girl to go to camp. This was the only time I…
The COVID Diaries: Only a Few Girls Allowed
Hello Darling Ones, I’ve worked myself into a barely coherent paroxysm of rage over 89.3 The Current’s Essential Debut Albums poll. I love/hate when they do these kinds of lists. Love: I am a musicgeek/pop…
The COVID Diaries: All of This is Coming Your Way
Dear Darling Ones, Here is the hazard of essentially spending a year alone + having a 20-year-old blog + being a forty-eight-year-old perimenopausal woman: your memory is not as reliable as it used to be….
The COVID Diaries: Thoughts Upon Eating Chocolate Cake at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday
Dear Darling Ones, Warning: I’m going to be talking about sleazy dirtbag sexual assaulters below & if that’s the kind of thing you can’t bear you oughta skip this one. It is 4:07 p.m. on…
The COVID Diaries: Am I Too Blue For You?
Hello Darling Ones, Around the New Year, I sent an email to a guy I know thanking him for introducing me to the music of Frightened Rabbit and being very kind to me while I…
The COVID Diaries: Jeff Tweedy & Me
Hello Darling Ones, I have never met Jeff Tweedy. He does not know of my existence. I don’t want you going into this thinking I’m gonna be dishing some dirty deets about the guy from…
The COVID Diaries: This is a Delicate Thing
Dear Darling Ones, Did you happen to catch the new yesterday that the man who invented the cassette tape died? I caught it, but I was too sick and sad yesterday to say much about…
The COVID Diaries: I Really Did See Things So Much Clearer
Hi Darling Ones, Despite my emotion hangover brought about by yesterday’s letter, I decided I was gonna get shit done. Shit in this case means updating my portfolio, which is a task I hate more…
The COVID Diaries: Kinda Shoulda Sorta Woulda
Darling Ones! I hope you remember way back on February 25th when I predicted Phyllis the Amaryllis would bust our her flower on March 3rd. Because, take a look at that picture up there. I’m…