The COVID Diaries: Vincent Adultman & Time Soup

Guess what, Darling Ones? Last night Yesterday, I accidentally ate dinner at 5 p.m. I was distraught when I came out to the couch after eating putting away the dishes and realizing it was 5:16 p.m. I thought for sure it was nearly seven and time for Supermarket Sweep. A few weeks ago, my friend EM referred to time in 2020 as Time Soup. It’s a mishmashed jumble of days, hours, months, that don’t follow any sort of chronological order…

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The COVID Diaries: Sliding Into My DMs

Dear Darling Ones, I keep a note on my phone called FROM THE BOOKS where I transcribe parts of books that make my heart wobbly. I don’t do this all the time because I’m lazy, but I try to. Sometimes, if it’s germane to the topic, I will read some of these quotes to my more accommodating friends and family. I guess sometimes, I even share them with you, Darling Ones. One of the quotes in my notes is from…

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The COVID Diaries: Cats in Hats & Other Saturday Tales

Well, Darling Ones, we got a bit of a good news bad news situation up in this joint. One bit of good news, for the most part I’ve kicked the insomnia to the curb and am melatonin free. There’s some unfortunate 6 a.m. wake ups, but nothing a little bit of practice* can’t take care of. The bad news? I’ve been consistently plagued with awful nightmares. They run the gamut from the OMG what are we doing eating inside this…

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The COVID Diaries: Grinchster Goddess of Minnesota

So Darling Ones, I did a thing! Even though I’m still feeling pretty much like the Grinchster Goddess of Minnesota, I had a lightning bolt of an idea for a Christmas Gift and it was so brilliant that I created it and bought it and shipped it out this morning before I even finished my coffee. I wouldn’t be so cryptic about it, but you never know out of all the people whose addresses I know which one might decide…

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The COVID Diaries: Petulant Brat

Hi Darling Ones, Nobody in my family will let me cancel Christmas. I even offered to postpone it until we can all be together, but Nooooo. We must go on with the gifts and ham even though most of us won’t be here. My mom came over for her annual Chinese food and online shopping event. Except when she was eating at the other side of the dining room table from me, she wore her mask the entire time she…

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The COVID Diaries: I’m Wiser & Slow & Attuned

Dear Darling Ones, So I finally looked up the difference between fetish and kink. In case you too are curious: kink: In human sexuality, kinkiness is the use of non-conventional sexual practices, concepts, or fantasies. fetish: a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to an abnormal degree to a particular object, item of clothing, part of the body, etc. I did this so I could be absolutely sure that my desire to judge men on their musical…

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