Hi Darling Ones, Added: I am slowly recovering from my stupid, self-inflicted emotional upheaval, which is good, but has left me a little scattered. So for today you get a listicle of random nonsense, the…
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21 Years of Writing I Will Dare.com
Dear Darling Ones, Today is the 21st anniversary of this blog’s existence. What stuns me the most when I think about the beginning is that Bill Clinton was president when I started I Will Dare…
Gin & Regret
Hi Darling Ones, A lot of my friends laugh when I tell them the exact last time I got shit-faced drunk. It was the night in August 2008 when Barack Obama accepted the democratic party’s…
Boobs! Boobs! Boobs! Orgasm. Snore. (This Headline is False Advertising)
Hi Darling Ones, Not only did I sleep like total garbage last night, I had one of those dreams that you can’t shake off and infects your entire day. Every time my brain is still…
My Own Private New Year
Well, Darling Ones, It has come to my attention that I should treat Memorial Day weekend (MDW) like it’s New Year’s Eve. Every year during this weekend I decide that now is when I am…
The COVID Diaries: The Groove is Not in My Heart
Hi Darling Ones, I got the yellow headphones and as I suspected they have fixed all the things. I’m unendingly content and frequently experience bursts of unmitigated joy. My loneliness has vanished along with my…
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: One Thing About the Ani & Liz Convo
Dear Darling Ones, After watching Ani DiFranco, Liz Phair, and journalist Margaret Wappler talk about writing and feminism and music my brain is, as you can imagine, soup. I spent a lot of time in…
The COVID Diaries: The Color Drained From Her Face
Hey Darling Ones, In an odd bit of serendipity, the audio version of Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics I had on hold at the library came in a few hours before the physical…
The COVID Diaries: A Goddamn Delight
Hi Darling Ones, This weekend I made the extremely smart decision to re-read Kevin Brockmeier’s The Brief History of the Dead, a novel about the end of the world caused by a viral pandemic that…