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Mar 25, 20204 min read
Why U2 Could Save the World
For decades, U2 has been ending many of their shows by playing a song called “40.” It’s a simple, meditative song about the desire for...
Mar 18, 20205 min read
Fear is not a license to be an asshole
Yesterday, my Hubby wrote a post on NextDoor about his Coronapocalypse experience at the grocery store. He wrote how he saw people wearing
Oct 10, 20193 min read
Love Letter to a Gritty, Gravelly Goddess
Being old AF, I’m usually pretty far behind the curve when it comes to discovering new music but with Jade Bird, I’m fairly on point thanks
Sep 19, 20194 min read
That Time I Nearly Killed 12 Girls at a Birthday Party
Have you been so passionate about something, so laser-focused on it that you lost sight of your peripheral realities and then the whole thin
Jul 8, 20193 min read
And Yet I Married Him Anyway
This is a love story: 30 years and counting. It is 1978; I am 12-years-old and barely enduring 7th-grade in a sweltering Texas classroom. M
May 28, 20195 min read
The Plan for My Auspicious Death at 97
I have known since 1976 that I will live to be 97 years old, just like my great-grandmother. I was 10-years-old when she died and at her fu
May 13, 20195 min read
Mother of Danes (or Why I Sleep with Livestock)
Living with a Great Dane is in every conceivable way exactly like having livestock in our home. Even more so than having a bunch of young c
May 6, 20193 min read
I Swear to You: Dispatch from a Cursing Connoisseur
I have been swearing semi-professionally since I was about 10-years-old. That’s the first time I remember using the word “fuck” and feeling
Apr 20, 20195 min read
I MET DAX SHEPARD AND MONICA PADMAN!!!
How I MET DAX SHEPARD AND MONICA PADMAN!!! And no, this did not only happen in my imagination like it normally does.
Apr 16, 20193 min read
I Know There's A Balance, I've Seen It When I Swing Past
Who knew it would be so hard to find the balance between work and fuckaboutery? I’m two weeks into this retirement gig and I’m somehow alr
