My space heater is rickety as homemade sin. It was also free from Casa de Madre, so maybe I should shut my flapping pie hole. Paired with a blanket and a hat, I can keep myself reasonably toasty, and neatly gloss over my idiocy in plunking the bookshelf down right in front of the heater [...]
When I left to house-sit this week, my plants left with me. Eight days without water would have killed them – which may have been kinder than packing them up to prolong the torture. It always feels like I kill plants quickly, but the two weeks plants tend to survive in my house must feel [...]
Filled with an overwhelming malaise of the soul (also known as hormones) and precisely zero desire to go out on Friday night, I popped a frozen pizza in the oven and looked at the small chihuahua skittering around the kitchen floor by my feet. “I’m going to die alone, Buster.” Buster hopped up and put [...]
Words you want to hear when preparing to house-sit: “I hope you like gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting…There’s going to be a lot in the fridge when you come over.” Oh, don’t you worry. I’ll take good care of the gingerbread cake. While forgetting why I’m there in the first place, forcing a small, [...]
As a truly dedicated procrastinator, the more there is to say, the more likely I am to slink off the internet and hide my laptop under a cushion where I don’t have to see it mocking me. I’m much better at writing haikus about a slab of brie than I am at discussing anything of [...]
Has anyone else been waiting for this day for eight years? 2000 was the first time I was home to cast an official lever-pulling vote in a presidential election (rather than the highly unsatisfactory “check the box and drop it in the mail” escapade of 1996) (although there weren’t any real levers in 2000 anyway, [...]
