I know this will be stuck in the greys, but fuck it: I sold my first story last month for an anthology. Through that, I found out about another anthology (again- paid! this is so rare) that is looking for new stories set in a specific location with a deadline in two weeks. So... I’m going to write the hell out of a…

My favorite women’s gym ever is the Fitness First Ladies club in Uptown Mirdif in Dubai. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING down to the dumbbells, is hot pink. I feel so glamorous in there.

I agree with most of it except for the “trying” part.

Naw. I am older than Charlamagne and I’m a damn woman. This was never ok, even back then. I bet she woke up out of her drunken haze and felt angry and ashamed, but shoved that shit down for two reasons. 1- She’d invested a year in his ass and wanted to believe he loved her. 2- You know what’s the worst thing for a…

As soon as I saw the Texas Monthly link, I said to myself, “Ooh, I hope it’s Skip Hollandsworth,” and then squealed a bit at the confirmation. Check out his archive on the site, especially if you’re into cold-case true crime. He is a truly remarkable writer and has a burgeoning fan club (not just me!).

MC Lyte. I don’t know how she doesn’t get the respect she deserves.

I think the simple idea that YOU get to decide which relationships you want in your life is pretty radical. The idea that you have authority over who gets space in your life is pretty damn important. I remember when I recognized that people who don’t respect me are not owed space or attention from me, it was pretty…

Sigh.

finally sold one of my stories to a podcast. i’ve never had a story produced for an audio audience. stoked.

I don’t think I mentioned it before but my baby had to have her eye removed last month. I had put it off for months because she didn’t seem to be in pain and removing her eye felt like such an extreme move to do electively. I finally did it in June and I think the whole thing was more traumatic for me that it was…

Hi all, how have you been? :)

Nope. All he had to do was keep his mouth shut. Not easy, perhaps, but doable, and if you make yourself a nonstory reporters aren’t going to bother past a certain point--they’ve got deadlines to meet.

Please! His daughter married someone, that’s all. No matter how fascinated the press was about it, all he had to do is say, “No comment.”for a few weeks and they would have gone over to pester someone else. Instead he and his other kids have started yapping which now ensures the paps will be glued to their front lawns.

The entire maternal side of Meghan’s family seems to be managing just fine without turning into a salty, thirsty, embarrassing hot mess.

I feel bad for her too. Fucking NOBODY deserved a father like Markle’s. Everything I’ve seen from/about him says “manipulative gaslighting shitbag.” I mean, can you FUCKING IMAGINE having one of your presumably-beloved children get married to a public figure ... and then you start staging photo ops and giving…

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The thing is, it sounds like she was not previously infected, since she developed all the symptoms of primary herpes infection (fever, etc.). So that being the case, since he bit her breasts—thus, “Eczema herpeticum”—that was where the infection started, and, if it recurs as a secondary outbreak, it will always recur…

Ted’s used to disappointment:

Fucking Phyllis Schlaffly. There are no words for the damage that that woman did. Although, this bitch is out there trying real hard to one-up her: https://thetransformedwife.com/men-prefer-debt-free-virgins-without-tattoos/

My therapist sometimes asks me about getting back out there and dating. I’m-a send her this.