Dear Darling Ones, Something I forgot to mention in all my whininess yesterday is how very okay I am with being single and alone. I’m pretty self-sufficient. I can pay my bills, feed myself, pleasure…
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On Sabbaticals, Perspective & Shouting Into the Void
Dear Darling Ones, On Monday, Jason Kottke announced he was taking a sabbatical from his 24-year-old blog. This threw me for a loop. Kottke was one of the first blogs I ever read in my…
Thanks for the Tip
Dear Amy, Hi. Just so you know I’m writing to you specifically, let me quickly list all the Amys you are not. You are neither of the two tea lady Amys. You are not my…
On the Boards
Hello Darling Ones, I’ve been reading Nichole Perkins’ essay collection Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, which is charming the daylights out of me. Despite being fiveish years younger than I am…
Today I Deleted Two Exclamation Points & Other Tales of Derring-Do
Hello Darling Ones, Earlier this week I read a frustrating and puzzling true crime book about a 50+ year-old murder at Harvard. The entire time I read the book I kept shouting, inside my head,…