Thanks for Staying Away from My Hubby While He Works

All over the country, people in service jobs are still being of service during the Coronavirus crisis. It’s not just the healthcare...

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

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