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

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.

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

How Did I Get Here?

How did I go from an anxiety-ridden, suicidally depressed, self-absorbed, agoraphobic wreck who couldn’t be conscious on an airplane or step

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