On All The Feelings
The other day my grandfather died. I hadn’t spoken to him since I was 16. I have a whole lot of feelings about this, as you might imagine. When you are estranged from a whole side of your family, you...
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The move is less than a month away. I feel eerily calm. This calmness is unnerving. I likely won’t be happy until the panic sets in. I know how to panic in a controlled and productive way. Hell, I...
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Laced fingers Young and Beautiful Baby thighs Unexpected clarity Issey Miyake Stolen solitude Super chunk peanut butter The exhale Hand written notes Orchids Stan Rizzo Drunk text messages Walking...
View ArticleOn Clutter
I am here again, packing up my life, moving on, hopefully moving up. I am feeling much better about this relocation, calmer and just ready. It is just time sometimes, ya know? Of course, when packing...
View ArticleOn A Year
I moved this Monday and my mother forgot. And, God, I know. I am the worst. Shaming my parents. Hey, person who loves to tell me how awful I am on twitter and how I am an embarrassment to my...
View ArticleOn Career
I sat at the bar with my friend Sass and admitted if you held a gun to my head and asked what I really wanted out of my career, I wouldn’t have a definitive answer. This is not a thing you say in DC....
View ArticleWhy Don’t You Blog As Much As You Used To?
I am tired. I want it to count. One gets exhausted by being called fat and dumb all the time. I know I am kinda fat. I don’t think I am dumb. It is a sin to not have low self esteem to the evil blog...
View ArticleOn Saying It
A friend of mine died recently. He was young and had small kids and it was all around pretty horrible. Grieving on the internet is a weird thing. For every person who had something beautiful and...
View ArticleOn Figuring It Out
I was texting with a friend tonight. A friend I made thanks to this very here blog. A good man. I have learned that a good man is, in fact, hard to find. I’ve held on to him and admit I am not as...
View ArticleAfter Midnight
*Ding ding* I have been on my couch for a few hours, catching up with friends. Jokes interspersed with laments about this or that. I glance at my phone, knowing what a text from him or him or him...
View ArticleOn Henry
My friend Sass has something up her sleeve. Yes, I have a friend Sass. I am the kind of person who gives nicknames. I have a “Snooks”, a “Patches”, and a “You Still Owe Me Money”. But Sass’s actual...
View ArticleOn Random Acts and Big Mysteries
My life is, at this point, fairly routine. Sure, random dates (and the inevitable stories that follow) and increasingly infrequent hangovers shake things up, but there is a relative calm in my life...
View ArticleOn The Aftermath
So, I thought I would provide everyone with some follow up on that mystery cash I received in the mail. Internet searches didn’t turn up much. ”concocorp.com” is an anonymously registered Go Daddy...
View ArticleOn Love…Actually
If you know me, you may be surprised to learn I adore “Love, Actually”. If you really know me, you likely aren’t that surprised at all. It is that time of year when everyone rails on this holiday...
View ArticleOn 2013
This is the year I started wearing flat shoes. It was time. Less tolerance for pain? A new found practicality about certain things? Unsure. I was sick of rubbing my feet. What I was doing wasn’t...
View ArticleIs This Thing On?
I have missed this space. I miss writing here, but I am still writing. Still scribbling away. Still popping up in other places. It was a goal to do more here this year and here we are. It is March...
View ArticleOn Career
I sat at the bar with my friend Sass and admitted if you held a gun to my head and asked what I really wanted out of my career, I wouldn’t have a definitive answer. This is not a thing you say in DC....
View ArticleWell, hello
I almost forgot how this thing worked. I miss y’all. I do. I miss writing, but the break has been nice. I did want to pop in and share a recent podcast I did with Peter. Sure, I am sharing because I...
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