Hello Darling Ones, While I was doing my taxes last night one of my twitter pals expressed an interest in my Top 10 Music Memoirs List. Because the only two things I need to do are make potato salad and work on The Beast, making this list is what they like to call productive procrastination. Before we get to the list, I broadened the category. I’ve read a lot of memoirs by musicians. A lot. Maybe forty? Fifty? I’ve read…
Dear Darling Ones, When I say I am obsessed with the Sylvia Plath biography Red Comet I’m not using hyperbole for comic effect. This book is all I’ve done and thought about for at least a week. It’s been my constant companion. I read it while eating and drinking coffee and before zoom meetings and while I waited for dinner to cook and before going to sleep and first thing when I woke up. This book has made me a…
Hi Darling Ones, Sometimes a memory comes at you so fast and furious you have to blow off work to get it off your chest lest it fester all day. I saw a tweet a few minute ago where a woman talked about quitting her job, and it made me think about if I had ever quit a job, then the floodgates. . . In the 90s after college I worked at a gas station across the street from my…
Dear Darling Ones, I am cranky and finding everything vaguely annoying. When I get overwhelmed about all the things I need to do for work or for continuing my existence I make a list. It helps soothes my anxiety and it makes all the things that loom so large in my head look a little less daunting. In attempt to stop being vaguely annoyed and cranky I’m going to list all the things annoying me. I had to buy a…
Hi Darling Ones, I do not like the flower Bird of Paradise. In fact, I kinda hate it. Seeing one gives me hatey-feelings in my heart and makes me want to spit. I did not realize my distaste for this fart-face flower until I saw that LEGO is releasing a Bird of Paradise building kit. The strength of my reaction to this news surprised me a little bit. I tend to love green, growing things. I stand over my Sadness…
Hey Darling Ones, Did you ever watch “The Good Place?” It’s a really good show about philosophy and the afterlife. If you’ve never seen it you should watch it now and thank me later.* There’s a great scene in the season two where the nerdy, super smart, and indecisive Chidi explains that his brain sounds like a garbage disposal with a fork stuck in it all the time. It’s always grinding away at things he’s afraid of or things that…