August 17, 2013
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So tired of brain fog and overwhelm
You know, for someone who was going to lessen and curate her news intake, I sure do spend a lot of time with news headlines being shoved into my eyeballs. It doesn’t help that I’m on or near a computer or my phone about a third of the day, and headlines pop up on those
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I love my pets but boy howdy do they stress me out sometimes
First off, EVERYONE IS FINE. But. Get pets, they said! They’ll lower your blood pressure, they said! A few weeks ago at Tulip’s yearly checkup, they noticed she had a broken tooth. No big deal, made an appointment for the next thing they had open that I also had a day open, and the 29th
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Show meeeeeee (where) the money (goes)!
You know, I’ve never actually even seen that Tom Cruise movie, where he shouts “SHOW MEEEEEE THE MONEY!”…! I know, I know. But it was impossible to not hear that line. It seems like for a few years there, everyone was riffing on it. So here’s my riff on it – I want to see
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Not the week off I had planned
Most of my local friends (and some of my far-flung friends and family) know my friend Lesley Lawson. Lesley and I met when we were both hired at the new Barnes & Noble that was opening in Butler Plaza way the heck back in… 1993? 1992? We were both hired pre-opening, which meant building shelves
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1095 Days of Being a Widow
Whelp. Today is the End of Year Three/Start of Year Four of being a widow. I say that not in a “oh, feel sorry for me” way but in a “whoa, look at everything I’ve done/been through in the last three years.” I usually take this day for quiet introspection, looking back on where I
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If you stand for nothing, Burr, what will you fall for?
I’ve pretty much exhausted all the letters on Resistbot (you do know Resistbot, right?) so I wrote one. It’s here on the Resistbot website, but I’m also going to put it below in case anyone wants to copy it. Send it as-is, adjust it to make it more personal, whatever. Speak your truth, even if
