Cinnamon toast and cocoa.

“I say, good sir!”

A tried and true maneuver to look as sad and pathetic as possible to get more treats. 

My mom doesn’t do computers, but I called her. She’s seriously okay about not doing Christmas, so that’s a good thing (she and my sister live together; they might drive each other a bit nuts, but neither will be alone). I’m not going to jeopardize my 84-year-old mother because of a holiday. As far as she’s concerned,…

Shelter Cat Update!

Multiple sclerosis can die in a fire. I had the worst relapse of my MS, and then on top of that my medication wore off, so I’ve been experiencing hell. I had my infusion yesterday, so I’m feeling better.

Why yes, I DID spend some time holding my dog like a baby, and he loved it. Fell asleep and everything. Making him forget that I gave him a bath two days ago and made him a fluffy boy.

Big day for the tiny human. We got her her very own library card! I adore how much joy it brought her. The library has truly become one of our happy places. Tho with books being quarantined for a week before they are checked in, we have been hitting our take out limits on my card. So now we can get sooooo many more…

I will absolutely second holding a dog. Sometimes I wake up and my giant puppy’s head is on my chest and I have my arm wrapped around him, and it is delightful. Speaking of which, the pup is doing very well! While things started a bit rough, he has calmed down a lot and our routine has done him wonders. His impulse…

My absolute best friend from high school ghosted me in college. Not right away, but a couple months in. We went to college in the same city but not same school and she just stopped answering my calls or responding to my AIM messages. My roommate and I went so far as to go to her college and try to find her. There is…

Long before I met the love of my life Mr. Reyes, I dated a theater student. He was no prize - embarrassingly bad to watch when he performed, but I thought I was in love. After living with him for four years (WHY??) he accepted a directing internship in another city. He broke up with me where I worked. I waitressed my…

After being rejected by every graduate school I applied to my first application year, I was encouraged by the chair of a department to apply to their PhD program the following year and then rejected by them. This was not a generic “we did not have room this year but encourage you to apply again” but an email exchange…

A little later in life, but that reminds me when one of my best friends was getting married and had a handful of bridesmaids. The wedding shower was the first in the schedule of celebrations that bmaids planned, and Shelby* —a bridesmaid and the bride’s BFF from college— didn’t show up. No call, no show, couldn’t get…

When I got hilariously drunk when I was twenty-two and hit on a male model and was gently reminded that his long-suffering wife (seriously, she knew all about his frequent trips down the local cottages and legendary standing in one of Brighton’s sleazier gay pubs and his fisting record. The man had an arsehole like…

I applied to be a poll worker for this election, hoping to alleviate the burden on people who were at high risk for COVID-19, and they told me that they couldn’t accept my application because they were all full.

As a former performer, I’ve been rejected a lot—comes with the game, you get used to it. But one thing I really hated would be giving a really great audition, going through the callbacks, being told by the director to not book anything else—and then seeing the part go to a smaller, skinnier girl. Who was usually good…

When I was about 10 I was transferring to a new school which my best friend already attended. We had been attached at the hip for several years and I was so excited!

I had been dating a woman for about a year. I was pretty smitten with her and she seemed to feel the same. She asked me to meet her parents and I was up for that. They lived the next state over so we decided to do a long weekend visit. So we get there, there’s handshakes and hugs, everyone is getting along. Weekend…

Had a crush on a close friend. Asked if he wanted to get romantic. He got weird for a bit, then called in to Savage Love to say he wasn’t attracted to me but was thinking we should just settle for a sexless marriage.

Dan gave the correct response of wtf that’s not what she asked you and obvi she can do better. When I…

I once had a girl stick her head in my door with the “We need to talk.” line while I was preparing to shortly give a really important and really stressful presentation.  Not the greatest sense of timing, that one.