CLOUDY

In honor of posting every single damn day this month, I went to Wordle to have a word cloud made of the words I used the most over the last 30 days. I am not surprised to see I overuse the word amazing, but I am shocked to see Awesome missing entirely. Please [...]

My song will sit in the pupils of your eyes, and will carry your sight into the heart of things.

When I start to get frustrated with Sasha, I have to remember what he did for me and what he is going through.  This is also the story of how Thanksgiving will never be the same for us.
 
Last year, the day before Thanksgiving, Sasha’s Dad, Henry, had a massive stroke.  He lives in Wisconsin, so [...]

Ghetto Frida

THE CURVE IN A SPIRAL

My thanksgiving focus this year is on my second cousin, Sarah.  Of course I love and am thankful for all of my family and friends, but I just want to put the spotlight on Sarah for a moment.
 
She is 16 years my junior, but I think of her more as my peer than my young [...]

TOP 10 THINGS THAT SUCK ABOUT HAVING HEARING AIDS

 
10.  They are fucking EXPENSIVE!
 
9.   The batteries die at inconvenient moments and you are screwed if you don’t have a back-up.
 
8.   The tiny batteries will also kill the baby if he swallows it, so be careful!
 
7.   The baby will also try very hard to pull them out of your head.
 
6.   Can’t lie down on your [...]

ALL OF THE ABOVE

Rearranging my sock drawer?
A good snack tip?
My bad luck?
The best thing I ever bought?
My history with Porn?
Other: ALL OF THE ABOVE
 
 
Well, I did a poll about what I should write about, and by an overwhelming margin My History with Porn won the vote, so that is in fact what I wrote about. Maybe people were [...]

BY POPULAR DEMAND, MY HISTORY WITH PORN

When I was about 9 or 10 years old, I decided to rifle through my parent’s bedroom.  I looked in their closet and all their drawers just to see what kinds of things they kept hidden away.  In the very bottom drawer of my Dad’s dresser, inside a manila envelop was a high gloss magazine [...]

PLEASE HELP ME

GOD’S COOKIES

 
Every year for the holidays I like to make my world famous Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk cookies.  They are a good excuse to break your sugar fast, especially if you are mainly making them for your friends and family.  You can make them with the pumpkin that you carved for Halloween, but that is too much [...]

And sail on shooting stars

How I will make sure that my mom is a part of my son’s life, even though she is not physically here:
 
I will make sure that these phrases are a part of my daily lexicon: RISE AND SHINE!  CHOP CHOP! ARE YOU READY, FREDDY?
 
I will always sing the oldies while making dinner.
 
Once a year every [...]