If you’re tired of being scared about the state of the actual world, perhaps try instead being scared of a haunted murderous lake woman and metaphorical mouse traps. Continue reading Real-life Coping Mechanisms, Let’s Discuss
I think of my experiences as being packed into a big, clunky suitcase that I haul with me wherever ago. This suitcase is kind of old and might be a little overstuffed, but it is mine to carry. Of course, everyone brings baggage into relationships — I just have a specific kind. Continue reading Lovesick, Sick of Love, or Just [mentally] Ill?
I’m blacklisted from at least two library networks. Continue reading The Unbearable Paradox of Deadlines
Nirvana had it wrong. We should not in fact be all apologies. Continue reading Say What?
It’s like in movies when someone time travels and accidentally makes it so that someone wasn’t born. Except they were born. And they treated you like garbage. Continue reading Photoshopping My Ex-boyfriends Out of Photos
My brothers would lay a couple of blankets on the floor and stick the “WWF Intro Songs” CD we owned into the stereo. We’d walk through the hallway to whatever intro song we picked and wrestle. Continue reading Life is Unfair
I wondered whether the mail carrier had noticed I’d planted new flowers in the bed by the driveway. Continue reading A Dispatch From My Second Summer Gardening
Maybe god is a bug and this is karma for all of the bugs we have killed. Continue reading Where Did All My Straws Go?
“Simple: keep them alive. Because they are living, that’s the reason.” Continue reading Kiskadee: Living Debris
Some things have changed a bit. Continue reading Well, we’re still here
