If you need diversity at your next party, call me!
“It is not hard to learn more.  What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.”  ~Martin H. Fischer This would be a good story if I were to write the book that I really want to write. Danny will ask how my writing is going and it is not going as well as it should be going. I should be a little more focused and yet I find myself in that awful place where I know exactly what I would like to write and yet I am unable to find all the words. I can see how the story and chapters will flow together and yet getting it on paper is the difficult part. It’s either that I’m busy and there is no t

Guess what! I’m getting my period!
“I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.”  ~Joe Walsh So I’m sitting here in the middle of watching this health care debate during which this total Lord of the Flies moment happens and I’m all “OH MY GOD! John Dingell is 80 fucking years old! Do NOT alarm him!” And poor John Dingell is banging the gavel and people are yelling over him and there’s Louise Slaughter who lives in Buffalo but has the most charming southern accent because she is from Kentucky. And so much is going on and there is so

New gig
I will be writing here three times a week: http://www.wisechoice.com/blog/ It’s bringing up a lot of past insecurities and anxieties and did I ever tell you about that time my mother was driving across the Delaware Memorial Bridge on my way to college and I sobbed, grabbed her arm and told her to turn around? No? Remind me to tell you about that someday. It was a pretty awesome

Cure your winter doldrums
“It doesn’t hurt to be optimistic.  You can always cry later.”  ~Lucimar Santos de Lima Yesterday I posted this over at BlogHer. I claimed that cream blush could clear you of your winter doldrums because it made you all glowy. Fuck that noise. It’s been ‘winter’ for five minutes and I’m already MEHHHHH about the whole thing. My only cure is the promise of vitamin D within the next few weeks. Santa Fe (do you know the way?) followed by Atlanta. And then it’s Christmas which does not produce vitamin D

November
“It was one day in November when we said we could and so we did. We hoped and then we changed.” – Me. This gives me chills. Even better, I wrote it and it gives me chills which is narcissism at it’s finest. I can’t believe it’s been a year. It feels like longer and less all at the same time. You all keep asking me how I feel about what’s been going on politically and that is a far longer piece of writing. One that requires a bit of soul searching and coming to grips with the reality of democracy. One the one hand I am a bit angry and perplexed by some of the beha