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The COVID Diaries: Ready to Shoot Sparks of Sadness & Fear

Dear Darling Ones, Last night I watched the Netflix comedy special “Bo Burnham: Inside.” I almost want to put the word comedy in quotation marks, not so much out of sarcasm but more as a content warning. It was a tough thing to watch, akin to Hannah Gadsby’s “Nanette.” However, when I was done watching “Nanette” I was awed and amazed and my brain was fizzing with thoughts. When I was done watching “Inside,” I felt vaguely bamboozled and disappointed….

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When the Spinster Comes Tumbling Down

Hi Darling Ones, Even though I haven’t even started reading the John Cougar Mellencamp biography my brain is chock full of JCM song title puns. I will not apologize for this. If you don’t like it, you know where the door is. So, I fell last week. In my living room. I didn’t fall so much as I tripped. I’m not entirely sure what the difference is. I tripped because I was wearing much too big for me pants. Theses…

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Libraries I Have Known

Dear Darling Ones, Ms. Heck was the smartest person I had ever met up until about 9th grade when Ms. Marquette, my English teacher, pronounced the word “melancholy” out loud and blew my mind. Knowing words and how to pronounce them is a theme throughout my life. I majored in Political Science because Dr. Meyers used the word “circuitous” in our first PoliSci 101 discussion class and it was the first time, as far as I could remember, anyone used…

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Catastrophe Averted

Well, Well, Well, Darling Ones, Look whose back from her anxiety vacation. It’s me! I spent the three days alternately sleeping or plunging into an ever more catastrophic anxiety spiral that was so annoying even to me I couldn’t type words. Or think thoughts. Mostly I snarled and stomped around this place imagining it as a pile or rubble at my feet. Also, I learned a new phrase, “catastrophic thinking.” This is what I do when things go wrong and…

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The Wet Spot

Hi Darling Ones, There is a fingers-spread, hand-sized wet spot on the kitchen ceiling. I suspect the guest bathroom toilet is leaking some place that I cannot see. There is no water on the floor of the upstairs bathroom so maybe it’s in the under the floor parts? I do not know because I am not a plumber. However, I did schedule an appointment with a plumber and do you know hard it was to discuss this problem without using…

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Shock Me, Shock Me, Shock Me with that Deviant Behavior

Hold on to your butts, Darling Ones, I have just learned there is a biography of John Cougar Mellencamp coming out next. NEXT WEEK! Are you so excited your heart is kind of pounding? I am. I love biographies and rock & roll and John Cougar Mellencamp. It’s a trifecta of love and boy howdy, could I use some love. This is not the point of today’s letter, it was just some good news I wanted to share with you….

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