Years ago, we took Cosmo on a float trip. As another canoe passed ours, a woman called out “That dog has a face only a mother could love!” They weren’t completely wrong: she did look rather bedraggled at the time. She wasn’t a huge fan of the trip in general, […]
Ah, it’s that time of year again. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and my ass has been in a sinkhole of depression for days. Yeehaw. If you’ve been around the Underground for a while, you might recall something similar happening around this time last year. Seems an […]
Melted down all over Facebook today. It….wasn’t pretty. The inciting event was that, after weeks of struggle on the part of both my partner and myself, I finally got an appointment with a new doctor to attempt to refill my brain pills. Happy news, right? Or, yano, not. It was […]
It’s been a week. As a white person, it’s been a hell of a lot less awful of a week for me than it has been for Black folks. I’m sure if I had an agent or worked with a big publisher or whatnot, they would encourage me to stay […]
It’s apocryphal, that tale of a Chinese curse that says “May you live in interesting times.” Some people have doubted it would be a curse at all. I mean, who would want to be bored?! Writing this at the beginning of May 2020, in times all would agree are highly […]
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