Hi Darling Ones, Happy Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz for VP Day for all those who celebrate. My body is having a really hard time accepting this feeling of optimism. My inherent cynicism is rejecting it like a bad organ transplant. I’m not a big fan of identifying with groups. I wasn’t much for school spirit and I have zero percent patriotism in my body. However, the two things I belong to that I really dig and have shaped my…
Hi Darling Ones, Like a good GenXer Sister #2’s laptop is filled with personality-defining stickers. The one I’m most envious of is the duck-duck-grey duck one. Like a total ding dong who lacks any real, concrete spirituality I get a lot of life guidance from those stickers. One of her stickers is a the James Baldwin quote “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” It’s a bit from his 1966 essay “A Report from Occupied…
Hey Darling Ones, Today is the 24th Anniversary of I Will Dare(.com). The song is 40 years old. It was released in July 1994, according to Wikipedia. I’m sure I’ve remarked on the July coincidence before, but it feels like brand new information to me. I also learned that the 24th anniversary is the opal anniversary. Feel free to send me this tiny opal kitten (or one of each color). Usually I love to revel in I Will Dare’s anniversary…
Hiya Darling Ones, Here’s a short list of some of things bringing me happiness this past month. Neapolitan Ice Cream Sandwiches Specifically, the Target ones. I’ve never been a Neapolitan person. Vanilla is pointless as far as I’m concerned and why have two mediocre flavors when you can have all chocolate? But, after watching all the various Baking Championships (spring, summer, kids, etc.) on the Food Network Neapolitan sounded good. I nought a box of ’em when Sister #2 was…
Hello Darling Ones, On behalf of Childless Cat Ladies, I’d like to say, you could do a lot worse. The US, any company, the universe, your life, your household should be so lucky as to be run by a childless cat lady. Childless cat ladies are great and they come in all different kinds. Some are partnered up, some are single, some are trans, some are queer, some are cat ladies of color, some are international pop superstars. . ….
Hi Darling Ones, Over the weekend I finished reading Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. It was a total snooze. I do not recommend. I stuck with it because one of my favorite genres is “when bad things happen to rich people.” Give me a murder mystery set in some English hoity-toity boarding school and I’m happy. The best thing about “Astor” is it kept reminding me of an argument we…