In my last post I mentioned my recent trip to Dallas to visit the internet. While hanging out in Dallas with my fellow snark ladies I filmed a few things. I put together a video of said things, principally for the sake of my own future nostalgia-fueled enjoyment. Just in case you’re interested in that […]
I spent a weekend in Dallas with two of my favorite people. Sitting in a bar above a ridiculously wonderful restaurant where the waiters carry out their jobs in costume and character, we chatted about favorite books. Somewhere in this conversation I remembered a thing I had forgotten about myself. I had forgotten a belief […]
It seems funny to me, somehow, that my last post on this little blog is called “arguing with calendars.” I grappled with my father’s 60th birthday, and yet made no mention of the fact that I turned 25. Or that I attended my 10th anniversary Coachella. I have nothing new to say besides noting that […]
My father turned 60 on Saturday. Even now, typing that out still seems like a lie. I knew his birthday was coming up, but when my mom first mentioned that it would be his 60th, I was a little stunned. I stopped, considered the math, and conceded that yes, rationally speaking, he must be 60. […]
Ashley Riordan, who I still just want to call Write To Reach Ashley, wrote a post a month ago called The secret life of everyone you know. It’s wonderful and you should read it. In short, no matter how well you know people, there is almost always more going on than you realize. Everyone you […]
One of my big blogger conflicts in the last couple weeks has been juggling two ideas that seem somewhat at odds with each other. First, I realized how bullshit it is to keep trying to pretend that things are sunshine and rainbows when they aren’t. Life gets hard and messy and I think that we […]
I’m not sure if I mentioned this, but back in January I applied to be one of the 20sb Community Managers, because of my inability to understand how important that emotional-wiggle-room thing is. If I have an extra 5 minutes in my day, that means that I am free to take on more things, right? […]
For all the self-indulgent bullshit that I fill this blog with, I can’t stress enough how important other people are to this. Yes, I’m mostly writing my little notes to myself, but even though that is how I write, it changes when I hit publish. I started this blog right after I graduated from college. […]
My bloggy BFF Lorraine and I talk about a lot of things all the time. That was a really pointless intro. I had typed something more specific about the thing that this post is actually going to deal with, but it was a lie, you see, because I actually email her way more than is […]
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