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 and a black woman from Nashville, Perkins and I share an affinity for many of the same pop culture touchstones. Namely, Janet Jackson’s “Control” album and what it meant for our self image when we heard her called “chubby;” what “A Different World” taught us…
Dear Darling Ones, For one night only I’m bringing back the COVID Diaries. I wish with my whole entire heart that was true, but my existential burnout coupled with my frustration has me predicting I’ll be writing about the Upsilon variant sometime in April. WE ARE TWO YEARS INTO THIS NIGHTMARE HOW ARE WE STILL SO BAD AT IT? The other day I told a client I have existential burnout and she said it was a perfect way to describe…
Hello Darling Ones, Every year for Christmas I buy a boatload of Lindt Lindor Truffles. This year I think I got like 200 truffles for $25, because I’m both fancy and cheap. They’re pretty much the only candy I buy for the holidays because they delicious and feel special. They are a big hit with everyone who travels through Supergenius HQ and I usually make everyone take a handful of them home because 200 truffles is a lot of truffles….
Hi Darling Ones, In 2012, after I found my biological father’s obituary, Sister #3 introduced me to the concept of ambiguous loss. This the kind of loss that’s not clearly defined by a dead body, a funeral, that kind of thing. The person doesn’t even have to be dead for you to suffer an ambiguous loss. They could be missing or cut you out of their lives. In her memoir Horror Stories Liz Phair describes the ambiguous loss around her…
So Darling Ones, Looks like I made it to 2022. I hope you did too. I had a very quiet New Year’s Eve with Sister #2, Ben, and I slumped into the furniture watching the entirety of the TV show “WandaVision.” Sister #2 has been obsessed with the Marvel Universe this year. Of all the offerings “WandaVision” was the only one that interested me. It was exactly the kind of thing I like a little sad, charming, funny, and smart….
Hi Darling Ones, I really want to crow about how we made it through this interminable year, but I don’t want to jinx anything. People magazine jinxed the shit out of Betty White turning 100 in a couple weeks and we all see how that turned out. On top of that, my niece and her boyfriend thought they were gonna make it out of Minnesota yesterday after a few delays only to get to Rapid City, South Dakota where the…
