Applause

Sitting on a tv set with only a towel or blanket to cover you and you realize you have no idea what your lines are or the storyline. You're the lead and you've been prepping all day to be in this moment and you've

Money

In all fairness, it is REEEEAAAAALLLYY past time for my fellow white folks to deal with our family issues. I mean, we've always been a group of people who are predisposed to destroying civilization and raping cultures. And we're absolutely witless enough to take down ourselves

Freedom

There's nothing wrong with taking a moment to rest. Science tells us that energy can be built, stored, converted and consumed. We're all biological machines that can wear down over time, ask your cardiologist about how many beats you get in a lifetime. But getting back

It's The End Of The World As We Know It

Don't do it. DON'T YOU SING IT! You DO NOT feel fine. Or if you do, why aren't you sharing whatever is making you feel fine. When you're swimming through a septic system looking for the ladder, first WHY ARE YOU SWIMMING

Daughter

It's hard when you try and try to keep peace and calm, but all that surrounds you is chaos and destruction. Sweat and tears, work and more work. You can't hold on to joy , you can't make it happen. You can choose it, but

Dreams

The other night I had a very good dream. It wasn't that the dream was all that impactful or long, but the memory of the dream is soothing. I should probably explain something interesting. I tend to have full feature length dreams fairly often, meaning about once a

Wicked

Yes, I said it. And I'm happy now. I hope you're happy, my friend. I happened to be in Toronto this past summer on a short getaway and had a free night. One ticket was left, well one I saw open anyway, so I snagged it.

Ain't It Fun

Remember I said that I'd get back to my son's chronic illness... Get ready for the best and LEAST sexy parenting post you've ever read. Also, if you've never heard this Paramore song, go download it now. You're welcome. It&

Ray of Light

Not my favorite Madonna song, but Like a Prayer as a title for this post is a crucifix too hot for this atheist to hold. So... Wine... There's a great wide gaping chasm of darkness and shit coming our way in the next 4 years that totally fucks

Not Ready to Make Nice

A little cliché, I know. I always felt for the Chicks, even if country isn't my preferred genre, I did very much appreciate the struggle they had with losing their audience with lyrics like "shut up and sing" resonating deeply as a blue dot in a

Nov 5, 2024: Revenge of the Sith

So very much... There's so much electricity streaming through my heart, my lungs, my stomach , my brain... Peak anxiety right now. This is so very bad. I feel a real need to consider leaving this place. A hermit's life maybe. I'm really getting why

Ship to Wreck

Note to friend: if you're in a good place right now, maybe save this one for another time. - N It takes a LOT of energy to keep a positive attitude on the outside when you feel like a sine wave on the inside. Moms hear this and

You Met Me At The Right Time

My experience voting for our first woman president starts in 2016 and swiftly jumps to 2024. Hillary wasn't my first choice, I'll never apologize for that. I respect her much more now, but I never forgave her for the 2007 primaries where she spent a lot

End of Beginning

WARNING: This post contains patient voice discussion of cancer and details on medical treatments. The patient is not a medical professional and this is not medical advice. Make sure you check with your doctor on your own treatment. This year has been challenging on many levels. It started with change

Once

Perhaps a little more understanding of formative experiences will help you with the puzzled look on your face. You know, figuring out why some of this babble strikes so close to home. Why you, no matter where you are, have decided to continue reading the musings of a proto typical

The Funeral

On a more personal note, we are again at Day 0 of "Days Without A School Shooting" in the US. I have many, many thoughts on the latest murders in Tennessee . First, my youngest is the same grade as the Sandy Hook victims. This means that her entire

My unlikely journey

No way am I going another month before posting my thoughts on this past week. Hoooooly hell is this an amazing time to be alive. Let me take you back a few years (pre-COVID times). It was June 2019, the biggest issue at that time was keeping the kids busy

August and Everything After

Most of us have first loves, and maybe even multiple lives we've lived. If only in our heads. I started life thinking I was an entertainer, but luckily I realized early on I'm mostly just entertaining myself. This is a great trait to have, being able

When the pawn...

I just found out that Fiona Apple's sophomore album had a title that was so long, it was a poem. The execs decided to shorten it to this "When the pawn..." A vision you have of your art, your career, your life gets swept under the

The End Game

It's pretty much all we'r e thinking about nowadays. "There has to be a way out..." or "How can I retire like now?" Not many of us will be able to retire before we're septuagenarians, but if you're

Purple Rain

It's been 8 years and 14 days, since Prince passed away. It stung, I mean as far as som e one you admired and who was there on your TV, in your house when you were a child but you grew up and realized you would never meet

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