Hi Darling Ones, Last night The Youths came over for dinner. We ate pizza and watched the Stevie Nicks’ episode of VH1 Storytellers from 1998.* For the record, both of my viewing companions were born after this episode aired on VH1. In fact, I don’t even think either of them even knew what VH1 was. They for sure didn’t know what Storytellers was, because I told them. Of The Youth’s many charms their love of Stevie Nicks is probably on…
Hi Darling Ones, You probably don’t think of a freelance marketing person who has worked from their couch for twelve years and who has worn the same David Bowie shirt since Sunday despite showering as having a lot in common with an action hero. And I’m not saying I am an action hero, but sometimes I am action heroesque. Take today for instance. I had a project due by the end of the day (Eastern time because time zones are…
So, Darling Ones, It’s clear to me now that many mistakes were made. The mistakes began on Sunday when I decided to throw open the windows despite dire warnings about air quality. It didn’t look so bad out and the ass-tastic heat and humidity had finally broken. The weather was so nice I left the windows open all day and all night. It took about four seconds after waking up to realize what a mistake that was. I woke up…
Dear Darling Ones, When we were kids our next door neighbors, The Deppes, loaned us a board game called Masterpiece. This is notable because we were not the kinds of kids you would loan things to because we destroyed everything. None of us have many cherished childhood toys that survived that period of our lives. Also, Sister #2 was constantly at war with Mrs. Deppe. Masterpiece is an art auction game where the goal is to amass the most expensive…
Dear Darling Ones, Today is the 21st anniversary of this blog’s existence. What stuns me the most when I think about the beginning is that Bill Clinton was president when I started I Will Dare dot com. Why does that one fun fact make me, this blog, and, well, Bill Clinton feel positively prehistoric? When I started* this blog at twenty-eight because I was bored and lonely, I did not expect it to become my life’s work. I didn’t expect…
Hi Darling Ones, Earlier this week when I started watching the documentary series “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” I made a joke about sleeping too well lately being the reason behind watching it. I finished the show last night and guess what I was doing at 2 a.m. this morning? Folding laundry because I could not sleep. I read the book a few years ago when it first came out and lost so much sleep because it scared the…