I picked up M. at aftercare the other night and ran into the father of one of M.’s aftercare friends — someone I’d gotten to know a bit over the past year through our daughters’ playdates and birthday parties. A year ago, I was still in the midst of finalizing my divorce and adjusting to…
My Precioussssss
A question often asked of me by friends, acquaintances, lovers, family members, pets, painted rocks, and online dates is: Why do you care so much about politics? Why? Why? Why? As if politics is a dirty word, or a bad habit like gambling, drinking, or a chronic porn addiction. Listen, I get it. Politics as…
Hello, 2020
And so a new decade is upon us. We call them decades and give them weight because someone decided that 10 years was the right amount of years to bunch together and deem significant. I think it began with Pythagoras. His followers started a cult that worshipped numbers, and believe it or not, they actually…
Shiny Happy People
Happy. Happy. Happy. Happy. Say it 20 times and the word, like all words, starts to lose its meaning and all you hear is the sound: Hap-pee. Hap-pee. If there is one truism in life, it’s that people want to be happy. Doesn’t matter where you live, or where you’re from, or what your station…
The Meaning of Life (Part 1)
This seems like an overly ambitious subject to be tackling on only the second post of my blogging rebirth, but I got some pretty good sleep last night and it’s a sunny Saturday with nothing pressing on my agenda, so fuck it, I’m feeling overly ambitious. I spend an inordinate amount of time contemplating the…
I’m Back
After an almost 10 year blogging hiatus, with a great deal of joyous/heart-breaking/incredible/incredibly shitty life experience in between that will serve as content for this renewed self-absorbed excursion of mine, I’m back to blogging. Why? Why bother? Why now? A lot of reasons, but the biggest one is that I need to write like some…