Owen isn’t like the rest of us. He’s chill. Cool, even. Hangs out with his thumb in his mouth and watches the rest of us worry about whether floors are clean, homework is done, mail is opened, bills are paid, dogs are fed, and the thermostat is set at an […]
“Fuck yeah!” was the reply to my “I think the military is sending me to your neck of the woods in a few weeks. Want to meet up for some sushi or something?” email. “A few weeks” ended last night. I followed Trudie’s (my Garmin) instructions across town. I laughed […]
On Saturday, I spent an entire day in a tent with a black Master Sergent named Jon. At our first conversational lull, Jon belted out this chunk of wisdom: MSgt Jon: You know, black people are smarter than white people when it comes to animals. Me: How’s that? MSgt Jon: […]
I decided I wanted to go to BlogHer last week, because the cool kids I already knew were going, and I wanted to meet a couple people whose words I liked, and one person from my hometown I’d been trying to meet for months, and I figured I could write […]
Thanks to Kathy at The Junk Drawer for telling me about this and to Heather from Confessions of a Coal Miner’s Granddaughter for recording it! More to follow when I have time….
