Isis Gave Me Superpowers (Not That Isis)

Remember back in 1974 when there was a Saturday morning television show called The Shazam Isis Power Hour? Probably not. I’m real...

Proving Myself to be a Shitty Human Being

You’re going to judge me when you read this story; I know that. But I am choosing to set aside my instinct for self-preservation and...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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