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When Two Things Have a Relationship Outside of Your Own Heart

Hey Darling Ones, When it comes to coincidences I hate them in fiction. The only thing I hate more in fiction is a coy narrator. When I’m reading a book nothing makes me fart-noise while simultaneously giving the thumbs down like a stupid coincidence. They’re often lazy, obvious, and always annoying. As much as I hate them in fiction, I love them in actual life, especially as they pertain to my life. For instance, last week I learned that Lucinda…

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Portrait of the Artist at 49 Years & 11 Months

Hi Darling Ones, When I opened my eyes this morning I had three thoughts almost simultaneously. First, “She Moves in Her Own Way” by The Kooks was stuck in my head. Second, Wendell, the vengeance demon was in need of attention. Third, I would be fifty years old in one month. There’s nothing like one of those round number birthdays to make you rethink every decision you ever made in your life that brought you to now. Do I have…

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Things That Make Me Feel Top Chef-y

Hey Darling Ones, For a delightful change of pace I’m not going to complain about living in the Smelly Trashbags of America. However, if you’re wondering how I’m handling the imminent revocation of abortion access, I cried while singing along to Pat Benetar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” I was driving home from the grocery store singing my head off when the second verse came up. . . You come on with the come on, you don’t fight fair….

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in Politics Voice of My Generation on by Jodi Chromey

What Do You Do While Waiting for Your Rights to Be Taken Away?

Hi Darling Ones, The worst part of living in a white supremacist capitalistic christian patriarchal oligarchy is that you’re expected to carry on like nothing is happening when something is happening all the time. And not like piddly navel-gazing petty drama shit. And not even serious, life-altering personal shit. But like catastrophic, apocalyptic, life-ending shit. It’s been happening off and on since like 2016, but has really pushed the pedal to the floor since 2020. Ok, the cruelty towards everyone…

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I am Hysterical

Fucking A, Darling Ones, What the fuck is with this garbage country and the Supreme Court? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Read the Politico story about the overturning of Roe v. Wade if you need to catch up. Do not tell me to calm down. Do not tell me that it’s a draft. For your own safety, do not tell me anything because I am incandescent with rage. I cannot comprehend the forced-birth movement at all. I know they call themselves…

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How a Resurrection Really Feels

Hi Darling Ones, Why is it that our grandest triumphs and greatest tragedies seem to go hand in hand? Do we need one to properly appreciate the other? Is this how we gain perspective? Should I start with the good news or the bad news? Probably the good since that has uncovered the bad. Remember my derelict ice maker that likes to break all the time and refuses to make ice for reasons that I cannot discern? And do you…

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