Dear Darling Ones, My latest cranky old lady, back in my day wish is to normalize blogging again. Specifically, I dream of an internet filled with personal blogs. Can you imagine what that would look like? How amazing, fascinating, and fun it could be? Let’s go back to the olden days, shall we? Can you imagine how great Instagram and Twitter would get again? I long for the day when I don’t have to fumble through trying to read a…
Hello Darling Ones, Earlier this week I read a frustrating and puzzling true crime book about a 50+ year-old murder at Harvard. The entire time I read the book I kept shouting, inside my head, “NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR PROCESS.” Most of the book is the author’s process of getting to know everyone involved in the mystery. It’s weird. Clearly, the author was not familiar with Dolly Parton’s book Songteller where Dolly talks about how her husband of a bajillion…
Hi Darling Ones, I wouldn’t necessarily say I had a plant-buying problem in the deepest, darkest depths of the pre-vaccine COVID era. However, it was a weird obsession verging on problematic. Sometimes I look back at all the time I spent reading about, looking at, and buying plants and think, what was that all about? Probably, I needed something that looked alive while I was feeling like death for so long. Or maybe it gave me something to do when…
Dear Darling Ones, I’m in a funk and it’s boring the daylights out of me. Most of my funks, I think, are boredom induced. I know only boring people get bored, but you should have figured out by now that I am fucking boring. The one-two combination of a seasonal work slowage + the dying of the light has incapacitated me. I’ve done nothing for past four days except read books, crochet, and watch Buffy. Last night I was feeling…
Hi Darling Ones, Back in March I fell in love with The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec. It’s one of only thirty-five books I’ve given five stars on Goodreads. That’s out of the 1011 books I’ve read since I started using Goodreads in 2007. I never went back and added other pre-Goodreads five-star reads like A Prayer for Owen Meany or Cat’s Cradle or Bread and Jam for Frances. If I knew any kind of math I’d figure out the…
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve been blogging for 21 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days, and for the first time in my entire blogging career? practice? habit? Anyway, for the first time ever my browser crashed in the middle of a post and I lost the entire thing. Lucky for you I’ve got a keen memory and I remember all the babble I had typed up to the point of the crash. I was telling you about how there’s…
