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The Healthy Benefits of Poor People’s Insurance

Dear Darling Ones, One of the benefits of being poor is the insurance, or at least it is right now. Who knows what the future holds for poor people insurance? Probably nothing. The only thing America hates more than black people, anyone not generally white passing, LGBTQIA+, and women, is poor people. This country hates poor people because, like the good capitalist robots we are trained to be, we equate wealth with intelligence, hard work, and moral superiority. Only stupid…

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April, Come She Will

Hiya Darling Ones, There has been some very minor, minute, minuscule movement on the big issues in my life. If you have forgotten what those are, they’re The Dole and Non-Janky Wheelchair. On The Dole front I got a sheaf of papers from Social Security asking me if I hired a representative (I did) and asking me how I’d like to conduct my hearing (via video call). Now, according to the lovely paralegal I work with, I wait a “few…

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Selfishness in the Time of The Horrors

Hi Darling Ones, I’ve had a lot on mind. Well, I always do. But lately I’ve been thinking about the two finger-snaps in Dire Straits’ “Romeo & Juliet” and if the are significant in some way, if they are meant to symbolize something. You’d be surprised by how much I think about this. It is more than a lot. However, since the federal government shutdown I’ve been thinking about other things. Namely the boundless cruelty of the USA and the…

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Maseratis & Peace Lilies

Dear Darling Ones, Tuesday we celebrated the life of my Aunt Sherry, who died much too young (67) down in Florida where she retired with my Uncle Wayne. I attended the celebration at the Savage American Legion along with a lot of my St. Martin family, what felt like half of Savage, and, to my delight, a few bowlers from the < a href="https://iwilldare.com/category/work/bowling/">Dan Patch Lanes days. When Nancy, who bowled the Tuesday Womens’ league along with my Aunt Sherry…

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Cursed By What I Wished For

Hi Darling Ones, How goes it? I’m eating Dots for the first time in nearly three years and they are delicious. I’ve missed Dots. I also miss Starburst. I do not miss jellybeans because I keep an empty Talenti-pint of them in my nightstand drawer for low blood sugar purposes. And, let me tell you, nothing cures your craving for FaveReds jellybeans (RIP greenbag starburst jellybeans) like chewing them at 3 a.m., grinding sugar into your recently brushed teeth while…

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The Introvert Anxiety Conundrum

Dear Darling Ones, My sisters often tease me about what a loud blabbermouth I turn into when I’m anxious. It’s a weird habit for a generally shy introvert. However, I grew up in an emotionally-volatile family and silence was often a prelude to an explosion of some kind, sometimes it led to violence. I’ll never forget being knocked into a wall at my Grandma Chromey’s apartment when my dad and his siblings got into an argument that ended in a…

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