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…
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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…
The COVID Diaries: A Total Ripoff
Hi Darling Ones, I’m struggling today. It’s alternately pissing me off and leaving me flat on my back staring up the ceiling fan while tears stream from my eyes. First of all, today is Sister…
The COVID Diaries: Turn Your Rage Into Art
Hey Darling Ones, Do you remember way back in 2017 when all we had to rage about was this country’s slow descent into fascism? Back when we thought it was gonna be bad after the…
The COVID Diaires: I Had a Real Job Once
Hey Darling Ones, Today I spent most of time doing mundane web chores for dollars while listening to the albums of The New Pornographers in chronological order. It was like 2004 up in this joint…
The COVID Diaries: Epiphanies Taste Good
Hey Darling Ones, We can all agree that monkeying with the time is kind of a giant nightmare and we should stop doing it, right? And I never know whether Daylight Saving’s Time has ended…
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…