Oh, Darling Ones, I am struggling today. It’s one of those days where I feel unappreciated, unsupported, and taken advantage of. Today I am lonely and afraid and frustrated. And I might have had a…
Posts tagged Mom
Day 134 for 200: These Are People Who Died
Every year my mom comes over and does all her Christmas shopping online. She usually hates shopping, but loves this. We eat Chinese food and then I operate the computer while she points to the…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The Grammy’s edition
You all know that Christa is my very favorite writer on the entire Internet, right? When she finally publishes a book I will have to put Mary Gaitskill and John Irving and Aimee Bender on…
And then it was time to break her heart Or, this is how you tell your mom your biological father is dead
I cannot listen to The Avett Brothers’ song “Live and Die” without a few melancholy tears sliding down my face. The song will forever be associated with discovering my biological father had died. As I…
Nothing worth sharing like the love that let us share our name
This might be my very favorite Thanksgiving photo of all time. Liam, my five-year-old nephew, really loves corn. However, eating corn can be a bit of a challenge when you’re still developing your hand-eye coordination….
My mom threatened to tell the Internet on me
My mom is still struggling with Facebook. She kind of grasps the concept but doesn’t quite realize that you can actively read your friends’ updates without responding or updating yourself. Tonight, at Jaycie & Max’s…
Don’t tell her I told you this, but. . .
Lately, whenever I talk to my mom she ends our conversation by saying, “don’t tell the Internet.” It doesn’t matter what she’s telling me, something about a cousin, her boss, my dad, what she needs…
The National Weather Service still strikes fear in my heart
My mom grew up in a tiny three-bedroom house in Savage with her six brothers and sisters. That house didn’t have a basement, so whenever the weather would get severe my Grammu would freak out…