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When did David Beckham start writing books? 2008-04-09 16:59:53 I am a very deep person. If you don’t believe me, you’ll just have to take my word for it. I am daily wrought over the world’s troubles, regularly paralyzed by feelings of anxiety and helplessness with nearly every headline I read.
I suffer, you guys.
So tonight, as part of my commitment to service of all [...] Read more:David
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Because I can’t afford to lose readers EVERY day…. 2008-04-07 18:21:13 When I was a kid, I was snooping around my father’s office and found a newly-purchased book about gifted children. Naturally, I assumed he was trying to understand his enigmatic daughter. For three full days I was flying higher than Willie until I mentioned it to dad, and he told me he’d actually bought it [...] Read more:afford
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The post in which I lose several readers. 2008-04-05 10:19:19 A hermit crab will do whatever it takes to not be seen. They live out their lives burrowed deep inside shells, venturing out only to grab a quick drink or bite to eat when they think no one is looking, almost always at night. What I want to know is, when did we decide to [...] Read more:readers
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On wolves and lemmings (In defense of Miss Britt.) 2008-04-03 14:42:34 [Editor's note, 8:25pm: This is a poorly written post, one slapped up haste. What's missing is this: Miss Britt
wrote a post about possible fallacies in the Sex Offender Registry system. As a result? She got kicked out of her Mommy's Group and her babysitter quit. THAT'S what sent me reeling. I'm sorry if this [...]
Ghost. 2008-03-31 22:14:44 Gracie stayed home sick from school today. At 6:30am her hacking cough was very convincing, but about an hour after the bus roared past our driveway she speedily made a miraculous recovery. I spent the rest of the day torn between a desire to take her seriously, and the familiar dizzying sensation of falling through [...] Read more:Ghost
two minute break 2008-03-30 17:34:00 If I had my act together, I’d line up a few guest posters. It would make me feel important, plus I’d feel like I was taking better care of y’all. (No we don’t say y’all in Wisconsin but I like to pretend we do, particularly when I’m waitressing. No I don’t waitress anymore, but I [...]
I’ve hit refresh a hundred times and my name is still not appearing. 2008-03-28 10:50:53 Were you all under the impression that I am a stable, rational person?
Probably not.
But were you laboring under the delusion that I am good-hearted, generous, selflessly thrilled for my colleagues, and chock-full of confidence in my writing abilities?
Probably. I mean, look at that profile picture over there! Look at the way she smiles knowingly, benevolently. [...]
Freddy 2008-03-26 16:28:08 My Grandpa Freddy
wooed us early on by taking off his hair when we least expected it. He had a perfectly shellacked silver toupee, a miraculous feat of engineering that never failed to render his only granddaughter speechless. From across the room he’d call, New York accent thick and teasing, “Maggie Snow!” and I’d turn [...]
The blog Okay, Fine, Dammit wants to be when it grows up 2008-03-25 21:41:01 Okay, guys?
I almost hate to tell you this because I have this horrible vision of you all immediately deleting my blog from your Google Reader to make room for this other one (actually the image is more like ah! and ooh! and pinch me, is this shit for real?? and screaming and crying and genuflecting [...] Read more:wants
Notes to self 2008-03-25 08:31:42 1. Remember for future reference that all you have to do is act crazy enough and your editor will drop one of your stories for you! (Neat!)
2. Google the hell out of “eight-year-old with chronic headaches.” Filter advanced search with “onset occurs just before getting on school bus, lasts until home, pain is [...] Read more:Notes
The conversation I had with my three-year-old before I even opened my eyes this morning 2008-04-11 08:25:28 Disclaimer: To speak in the true Eva voice one must A) lower your own voice at least one octave, 2) make your eyes impossibly large, F) wobble your head bobble-head style and cock your eyebrows with attitude, 6) sub out all your r’s and l’s for w’s. Are we ready to begin?
The scene opens at [...]
She hides like a child but she’s always a woman to me. 2008-04-10 19:57:41 Pssst. Jenny the Bloggess! Why you not hear those rocks at your window? Why you make me switch to bricks? Surely you must have heard at least the one that shattered your leg lamp?
Seriously, don’t you check your Sitemeter? Isn’t it kind of a red flag for you when some freak on a MacBook in [...] Read more:hides
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spring fever, dammit! 2008-04-12 09:46:21 Did you hear the one about the Wisconsin family who woke up one April 12th morning to snow flurries?
And then the mom stabbed herself in the eye with one of the toothpicks she was using to prop them open in the hopes that she was only having a nightmare and that the longest winter [...] Read more:dammit
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Am I doing it all wrong? 2008-04-15 11:33:34 Annie Ruth Brown grew up in a slave shack on the Blue Lake Plantation beneath the whithering Mississippi sun. She and her children worked the surrounding fields for little to no pay, sometimes to the point of passing out, from 1964 til 1994 — an era when slavery had supposedly been illegal for more than [...] Read more:doing
see Nothing here. 2008-04-14 13:47:30 I’m a lump, trapped. Frozen solid inside myself. To even move my eyes is painful, though not as painful as the seeing itself.
All around me, mess. In the reflection of the blackened television I am twice the size I think I am. My to-do list is spinning wildly out of control, like a Jacob’s Ladder [...] Read more:Nothing
There’s a party in my comment box and you’re invited! 2008-04-18 09:58:54 My editor is the best editor on the entire planet. Not that I’ve had all that many, but I just know she is. She is funny and challenging and supportive and collaborative and non-censoring and incredibly patient. She is deserving of an ode, an entire post today, because today is her birthday. The thing is, [...]
Honk if you’re an egomaniac! 2008-04-17 08:10:16 My friend Pare is a modest girl. Yes, she is the sort of drunk you can’t take to parties, and yes, she curses like a sailor, and yes, she revels in making a glorious fool out of herself on a somewhat regular basis, but if you don’t know her in real life it may surprise [...]
Well? What do you think? 2008-04-19 16:05:21 I’m not sure y’all realize how much I love this blog.
It’s not the words I’m writing, it’s the space itself. The template and the format. For whatever reason, when I log in here I feel a freedom I can’t experience anywhere else. It’s even affecting my work.
When I write my articles, it’s in the standard [...] Read more:think
Just another dead kid to remember on my runs *(updated at bottom)* 2008-04-20 20:09:57 In case you were wondering, Busch Light is the “road soda” of choice in my neighborhood.
It’s sickening, the sheer numbers of beer cans strewn about the ditches of the country road I live on. A whole hell of a lot of people must drive around slurping the foam from newly cracked cans, careful not to [...]
panic. 2008-04-23 10:01:24 The world stops, the loamy tang of quiche and coffee caught suddenly at the back of my throat.
The cafe’s picture window morphs into a horror movie screen, the leading lady sprinting into the center of traffic. My eyes are glued to her stricken, desperate face. Inside, a scream, the stilling of my heart, and the [...]
Let’s lighten the f*ck up around here 2008-04-25 09:40:40 It’s not that I’m afraid to say fuck. The use of the gimped swear up there is simply a gracious nod to those of you who work in concentration camps, those evil workplaces that block my blog for security purposes. All this heightened security is likely a direct result of one of those new fangled [...]
little victories 2008-04-27 14:50:56 When I weighed 115 pounds, the world thought I was hot. Well, maybe not my closest friends and family, but believe me, the rest of society approved. I looked like I had it all under control, like those vixens in 1980s cigarette ads, collected and desirable and Kool. It didn’t matter that I was sticking [...] Read more:little
so much for lightening up…. 2008-04-29 09:33:58 Let me ask you something.
A young man dies unexpectedly, tragically. The funeral home is packed with mourners, the vast majority of them friends, because his family has been disintegrating for years… his parents are long divorced, his father suddenly disabled. There was abuse, abandonment, alcoholism; a cornucopia of woes to feast upon his entire truncated [...]
I’m huge in Singapore 2008-04-30 09:26:32 I keep trying to tell my husband how important I am. This has been going on for years, and I rarely gain any ground. My kids aren’t buying it either, despite numerous attempts on my part to blow my likeness up into an 11×14 so that Hannah Montana (that naked little hussy) has some competition [...] Read more:Singapore
there but for the Grace 2008-05-01 22:02:15 This is my favorite time of day, hands down. It is well past evening, but not yet late enough for me to worry about not getting enough sleep. I’ve shucked responsibilities and clothes. My bedroom window is yawning wide, the sweet country air dancing in and out as she pleases. All I can hear are [...] Read more:Grace
hiatus 2008-05-05 18:41:20 I spent the day coated in freshly turned dirt, sinking my fingers deep beneath the darkened soil. I kneaded the earth like a prized loaf, its recipe secret and guarded and passed down through generations.
I sat on my front porch with coffee and an unfamiliar notebook; the pen in my hand awkward at first, but [...]
are you still reading? 2008-05-11 21:29:43 After a hiatus, you’d love to come back with a bang. You’d love to hit one out of the park, write the most breathtaking treatise anyone has ever read. Unfortunately, tonight I can barely string these words together, and I hope you’ll forgive me for it. I just needed a place, I just needed a [...]
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