Hey Darling Ones, I am not dreaming as I write this, but please forgive me if I go astray. This morning I had a frustrating dream about trying to take a picture of an implausibly pink sky. In the dream I was trying to capture the color of the sky because I didn’t think anyone would believe me. Or I would forgot about it before I woke up. I was delighted as fuck when I woke up around nine this…
Hello Darling Ones, I can’t remember which Westernerd put Marah’s “Why Independent Record Stores Fail” on a Mix CD for me, but it is a song that went straight to my heart the moment I heard it. This was also the song playing on a loop in my head the past two days as I got a head-start on my 2023 intentions by moving my records from the dining room into the living room. If you don’t know the song…
Hey Darling Ones, Without much preamble, here are some of my favorite songs of 2022. Blush by Dessa This song, at least to me, is about the conflict of being in a situationship with someone you really want to be in a relationship with. As someone who has been in numerous situationships I wanted to be relationships, each line of this tightly constructed gem kinda punches me right in the heart. I love how she justifies her ever deepening feelings…
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve read 170ish books so far this year. I will definitely read more before the year is over. However, I plan for all of those books to be cupcake-like mysteries that I will probably dislike a great deal. I read a lot of mysteries I dislike a great deal because I love to read mysteries and then judge them harshly. For example, I read a mystery this week by a British author. The book takes place in…
Hi Darling Ones, I have been out of sorts lately in ways unrelated from all death and accompanying grief. There’s just been this low-level air of dissatisfaction and crankiness lurking about the place. My fart noises at positive affirmations on Insta were extra farty. My sisters asked me an innocent question about Christmas plans and I burst into tears while texting them. There were probably other things that I can’t remember now. I chalked it up to some weird quirk…
Hi Darling Ones, During the uprisings in the summer of 2020, Sister #2 made a game of asking people if they’d loot big box stores if given the opportunity. If you answered yes, she’d ask you what you’d loot. It was a pretty fun game in a very dire time. When I gave my answer she blinked at me in silence for a minute. “That is the most off-brand, uncharacteristic answer,” she said. “I would have never guessed that. You…
