This Thanksgiving / Holiday season, I’ve noted a fun new festive quality in myself: COMPLETE AND UTTER VOID OF PATIENCE TO VIOLENT AND SOBBING DEGREES. While we were at Leatherwood, a mixup with our bank …
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Fresh Out
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Rage
I feel like Rage doesn’t suit me. It’s not my natural or go-to state. The closest thing I think I’ve felt in the past is frustration, which is a gateway drug to Rage, the Diet …
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Feelings Recipes
One of my new favorite things to do is to write Feelings Recipes, by which I mean, listing out not only ingredients but also the Feelings I put into whatever I cooked. And so I …
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WE’RE FINE, HOW ARE YOU?
I’ve finally located the most perfect anecdote to share whenever I’m asked, How are you, How are things? I will now reply: Well yesterday, I came home from the doctor frustrated because it takes a …
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AM I CALM YET?
Does 10 minute long guided meditation; finds Calm Is very proud of oneself immediately starts to spiral with worry then starts to spiral more with worry that the guided meditation didn’t ‘work’ IS 100% NO …
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Veinity
Me / Nurse: Hey veins! How you livin’? Veins: SMALL Me / Nurse: Cool, that’s cool, we’re just gonna need some blood real quick! Veins: NO Me / Nurse: But blood contains vital information and …
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The Easiest Part
My friend Maggie and her boyfriend Grimur had a little Girl about 6 months ago, as weird and beautiful as her parents. I kept asking Maggie what her daughter’s name was, and she kept saying, …
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THIS CAT, THO
You’re not a Cat person, you say. You’re not an Animal Person even, you say. BUT THEN I ASK YOU: ARE YOU IN FACT A PERSON AT ALL? AND I ALSO ASK YOU: HAVE YOU …
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Bitch-slapped by Hope
Why be a writer at all, or even have a blog at all, if I don’t keep trying to find a new way to articulate the same thing over and over, just keep finding and …
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Further and Further Away
I don’t so much have Good dreams or Bad Dreams, I have Worry Dreams, with very simple plots that usually involve me trying to get somewhere important, pushing through sand and time to get there, …