Phantom Smells

Does she know? Does she know?

The Breathing in the Attic

Let me preface this by saying I don’t believe in ghosts. I believe there is a reasonable explanation for what I experienced. I just don’t know what it could be.

I grew up in an old house. The kind with high ceilings and big windows and lots of creaking. We had a full attic, filled with…

LOL Me when I go to a restaurant so many times they already know my order but I’m too shy to tell them I actually want something different this time. :-( 

Towards the end of college, my roommate, Ally*, and I moved into a new apartment. We wanted a place that felt more like a home. What we picked, though definitely that, was also weird. It was a ’60s, maybe ’70s, house in a nice neighborhood. On the outside, it looked like many of the houses in Boulder with exposed…

My dad committed suicide ten years ago now. Just over a year ago, I was running errands near where he used to work - I spent a lot of time there as a kid, he and my mum job shared and it was a notforprofit and very social and family oriented. The organisation isn’t in the main part of the building but there’s still a…

Before everyone starts in on the herpes jokes, just remember that a lot of people have either simplex 1 or 2, and it’s a relatively benign condition and there should be no stigma attached to it because that prevents discussion both as a community and culture and with partners. 

That’s a baseless assertion. The average failure to show rate is about 12%. A recent study showed that court systems could reduce that rate to as low as 6% if they implemented a simple text message court date reminder system, so lets not use personal annecdotes as basis to demonize people caught up in the American…

She got me through the last two years of my life. She is amazing. 

I guess thanks to Ryan Adams being a huge douche and introducing me to Phoebe Bridgers, who is my new favorite. Been listening all week.

Yeah that’s one of the enviable things that rich people do. We’re trying to decorate and my boyfriend wants a motorcycle in the living room and I was trying to explain to him how much more femme and camp things would be if I didn’t have to take his presence and comfort into consideration.

I keep getting rankled at all these people asking “What do you taaaalk abooout???” Seriously, no one can conceive of two people of slightly more disparate ages being engaged enough in the world to enjoy doing and discussing some of the same things? Or maybe being up for learning about something new from their…

Agreed. The time for talk is over. The time for protest is over. We need to overthrow these people immediately. I was all for waiting until the elections, but how many people will be murdered or brutalized by these monsters in the meantime? How many children?

If we don’t use our bodies to stop this we are lost and may as well just give up. Children, specifically, innocent children, are in concentration camps. In our country. What use is civility if this is the end result?

It wouldn’t, some people just can’t let an opportunity to insult a Kardashian/Jenner go by.

Who are they hurting? Come on.

Really!? They seem like a loving family. Super egos but who cares? They aren’t hurting anyone. They’re pretty and funny and their kids all seem happy and close. Why hate?

My parents lived near that building 50 years ago and my mom was OBSESSED with trying to spot her. Then one day, my mom was pushing my brother in a baby carriage and Greta Garbo was walking towards them. As she passed my mom, she said, “you’re baby is beautiful”.

Hi-five! I’m 32, husband is 45.

So ... nothing he did could tone up his lower half, then.