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The COVID Diaries: Thoughts Upon Eating Chocolate Cake at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday

Dear Darling Ones, Warning: I’m going to be talking about sleazy dirtbag sexual assaulters below & if that’s the kind of thing you can’t bear you oughta skip this one. It is 4:07 p.m. on a rainy Tuesday, the 376th day of the pandemic. I’m in the midst of writing this entry while also eating an enormous piece of chocolate cake that is bound to ruin my dinner, if dinner even happens. This might be dinner. Who knows? I’m not…

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The COVID Diaries: RIP Queen of Savage

Oh Darling Ones, One of my favorite real-life characters died and I am sad. I wrote about Carol Sue once, a long time ago. It’s a good piece. You should read it. Sister #2 and I love to talk about what an icon Carol Sue was. We always called her the Queen of Savage*, because she knew all the things about everything and had an opinion about it that she would share with you. She always had her hair done,…

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The COVID Diaries: Am I Too Blue For You?

Hello Darling Ones, Around the New Year, I sent an email to a guy I know thanking him for introducing me to the music of Frightened Rabbit and being very kind to me while I nursed a broken heart. He was all, “No problem, hope they’re not too sad for you. They are for me sometimes.” And I laughed. As if. Too sad? For me? Jodi Chromey the duchess of anguish & misery? The Internet’s favorite bittersweetheart? The woman who…

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The COVID Diaries: On One Entire Year of Screaming Inside My Heart

Dear Darling Ones, Today marks an entire year of the COVID Diaries. This was a project I started because I didn’t want to forget what it was like to live in unprecedented times. I wanted to remember how I coped with the pandemic, current events, and being the caregiver to two young men in the middle of all this. My heart is heavy and my eyes are full when I consider all that’s happened in the last 365 days. Selfishly,…

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The COVID Diaries: Two Things

Hi Darling Ones, I’m sitting on the couch a miasma of anxiety and nerves because a repairman just left and I have a job interview in 58 minutes. Now that the repair is completed I feel 57% less anxious. Inviting strange men into my house to do things is so unnerving, especially when I’m all alone. This repair threw me for such a loop that last night I had two separate dreams about being kidnapped. I’m a big, tall woman…

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The COVID Diaries: The Witch of Ironwood

Dear Darling Ones, The first story I ever wrote was shortly after I learned the word banished. It was called something like “The Banished Witch of Banishment Mountain Who Does a lot of Banishing.” I was about seven when I wrote this story and created the board game that came with it. I was either a marketing wunderkind or had recently learned what Dungeons & Dragons was. I can’t remember. Though, for the record, I’ve never been a DnD person…

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