Okay, I’m probably not getting my nose cut off, but I always prepare myself for the worst. I’ve always done that. It wasn’t until I read one of Brene Brown’s books last summer that I realized what I’ve been doing all of my life when I’m a little bit afraid. I’ve been “dress-rehearsing tragedy.” It’s […]
This is not a picture of me meditating.
It’s a stock photo of someone who kinda looks like me meditating, though. Getting a picture of myself meditating might be a little difficult, because that would require me asking someone in my family to take that picture, and I’m always telling them to please just leave me the hell alone. It’s funny how that’s happened more as […]
See? I can be sweet.
For Christmas, I couldn’t find Wanye (rhymes with Kanye) a present because he’d already gone behind my back and bought a new table saw he’ll never use (along with God knows what else he’ll never tell me about). So I literally bought him an Oakland Raiders fidget spinner, the only piece of useless Raiders licensed […]
Someone’s laughing at us right now.
I’m just saying that it’s kind of a cruel joke, that two people meet and fall in love and are somehow supposed to live together forever, when first of all, even Aristotle couldn’t really explain eternity, much less two kids of sixteen and seventeen. I mean, when you met a hundred and fifty-six years ago, like […]
We call him Wanye (rhymes with Kanye)
I’ve been married a long time. About eighty-three years now–or maybe it just feels like it. Being married to this man hasn’t been easy, and some days I’m pretty sure I deserve some kind of prize. Wanye (rhymes with Kanye) is a real piece of work. His friends think he’s a blast, but my children can […]