Fan Club

Let’s just put it this way. Mr. E has a lot of fans. I am fairly sure my mother likes him more than she likes me.  Any time she has ever gotten the slightest inclination that there was a chance we wouldn’t be together 4 EVA, she would fuh reek the hell out and inform [...]

Wednesday Writing Prompt – I Wouldn’t Say It Was My Best Idea

I wouldn’t say it was my best idea, but when I was 17 years old, I decided to just stop eating. It was surprisingly easy.  I set myself up so I didn’t have any choice.  I wouldn’t eat any breakfast, and then I’d go off to school with no money and no lunch. I’d spend [...]

Reminder: Today Is Tuesday. That’s How I Know That Tomorrow Is Wednesday

This weeks Wednesday Writing Prompt has been posted at She Likes Purple, it is: “Start any story with, ‘I wouldn’t say it was my best idea,’ and go from there.” . If you participate tomorrow let me know and I’ll link to you.

How To Hang Living Room Curtains In 33 Easy Steps

1.  Obsess over the Pottery Barn catalog from the time you are 14.  Think to yourself “Some day I will own some overpriced striped silk curtains even if I have to sell my liver.” 2.  Eat more pie than you ever thought humanly possible. Buy a house. 3.  Move. Feel immensely proud of superior organizational [...]

Candy Weekends and Rocky Road Dreams

Am I the only who goes to the grocery store and stuffs her cart full of healthy goodness and gets all excited about lettuce and celery and low fat butter and then comes home and thinks “Huh. Where the hell’s the candy?” Happens every time, I swear. Yesterday I got a giant iced tea from [...]

Oh Boy

I wanted a girl. I find this difficult to admit. People trot out the most ridiculous innapropriateness when they know you’re going to have a baby and one of the things they ask you is if you want a boy or a girl, and Mr. E always said his thing about ten fingers and ten [...]

Tell Me A Story – Wednesday Writing Prompt

I am seventeen years old, and I am wearing a humiliating catholic school gym uniform. It still feels like summer, but it’s a few weeks into the first semester of my junior year, at a new high school, in a new place, and I don’t know anyone yet. My loneliness is palpable, and I wake [...]

Wednesday Writing Prompts

So maybe I am stealing this idea from someone I don’t read, if I am, please forgive me.  Great minds and all that. But one of the things that seemed to come up a lot this weekend among all of us bloggity types was that it’s really hard, day after day, to come up with [...]

My Favorite Things

I was thinking of how to write an I sort of went to Blogher recap post without being gushy or annoying or in-jokey or name droppery, and I thought I would just tell you this. This weekend was one whole huge weekend chock full of my favorite things. I got to eat Thai food and [...]

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