I got poked on Thursday. The best kind of poke you can get during a pandemic. I got the vaccine. According to the stack of papers they handed me before said poke, I received the Pfizer. In a weird sort of doomsday kismet, both my husband …
Relax Into It
I’ve been having trouble with the cold, my Floridian blood is too thin to bear this unrelenting freeze. A friend of mine who is all too aware of my plight, a fragrant and fetching Mississippi magnolia who was transplanted many years ago to an icy Nordic …
I Tried Aerie’s Real Sunnie Bra So You Don’t Have To
I haven’t had a haircut in well over a year thanks to Covid. I want one really bad. I need one even worse. It’s just one of those things I’ve discovered I won’t do during a pandemic. To me, the risk doesn’t seem worth the reward. …
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A Leftist Response to Charlie Kirk’s Thanksgiving Rant
Dear Chuck, Can I call you Chuck? Even though this is our first time meeting, I feel like I can. If it’s good enough for Peppermint Patty and Charlie Brown, it’s good enough for us. Am I right or am I right? So Chuck, I saw …
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Bullet Journaling 101 – Pandemic Edition
If you’re like me and are looking for a new project to become wildly interested in for a brief period of time, thinking it will take your mind off the deadly pandemic, life altering isolation, and melting polar ice caps, then bullet journaling might be for …
My Teenager Teacher
Acclaimed writer Joan Didion said, “See enough and write it down.” I’d venture a guess she wasn’t going through a pandemic when she said that because I’m not seeing much more than the same four walls these days. Or perhaps she was living the pandemic life …
Homeschooling While Sick
I have this memory in my head, a happy vision of an otherwise grueling time. My ten-year-old towhead, grinning from ear to ear. I can hear the giggles if I close my eyes. His English lesson that day came in the form of a rousing game …
I Read An Amish Romance Novel So You Don’t Have To
Twitter has introduced me to many things I never wanted to know, such as the fact that an alarmingly large amount of men will proudly send photos of their genitals to complete strangers. Men on Twitter also have the capability to turn any mundane tweet into …
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What Remains of Summer
If you sit outside and listen to the cicadas scream soon you’ll want to join them. It’s summer, the tail end. The hotter it gets, the louder they screech. Such sweet relief. I envy them. It’s been too long since I’ve spent an evening outside. I …
I'm Sick and So Are You 