My right ear’s day started normally enough. Woke up, heard things, the usual… Little did it know there was evil lurking just moments away… …evil in the form of an Itch. At first it was only a little itchy…Then it … Continue reading
I was thinking of writing a book in February but I can’t decide if I should write it as myself (creative nonfiction sort of artsy type thing) or if I should try to contrive some sort of fantastic story, complete … Continue reading
A few days ago I was driving in to work at the crack of dadgum dawn, when it hit me: THIS IS MY LIFE NOW. It was surreal, and depressing, to face the day like that, just exactly as I’d … Continue reading
I have cried–wept–no fewer than six separate times today. This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I didn’t even push anything out of my crotch for it. I can never be a mother.
Poor Kyle and I are in Arizona watching my sister’s two boys (aged nearly four and nearly 1) for five days while their parents (the boys’) are on a cruise. This pretty much qualifies me as sister of the year … Continue reading
September 2011 marks the start of my 25th year alive on this old earth. I’m not having a quarter-life crisis. But I nearly am. It’s not that I necessarily feel old—I have enough post-25 readers to know that I would … Continue reading
I have done some intensive research and come to the conclusion that I’m looking pretty frumpy these days. Proof: look at all those chins, those scraggy bangs; if it were a full-body shot you’d see a fair bit of chunk … Continue reading