Gah. Where to start? All the celebrity death? Losing important members of my musical family – the musicians who babysat me during my formative years when I felt super weird in a ’round-hole-square-peg’ way. It turns out that I was not weird at all from the casual observer’s viewpoint, but the insecurities of my childhood …
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Happy f*cking holidays
*Directions* – please put on your humor glasses before reading. Some effects are in 3-D. The past month of my life has sucked old man balls. No offense to old men and their dangly bits. Well, maybe just a little. Since men traditionally age so much better than women maybe I’m just angry that my …
dark hours
I hit a big freaking wall yesterday. It wasn’t a slight fender-bender. No. It was a full-contact, crash-test-dummy-ejecting fiasco. For half a second as I was flying through the air, I felt a brief embodiment of joy as the last bit of my sanity was stripped away from my soul – which in my mind …
Making headlines
I do spend a lot of time on the computer, so I’m no stranger to the trending sensation of sensationalism. I just saw a headline a few minutes ago that said, “What the mechanic did to this woman’s car left her in tears.” Well, we’re expecting some horrible story about how this evil mechanic left …
Courage is subjective
*Contains a swear or two. Not long ago, I got involved in a small debate on Facebook over the nominees of the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. I generally don’t like to debate much of anything as I’ve always been the kind of kid who could see all sides of an argument as long as they’re …
A gift of hope
This has been a most trying week for your good friend, Sarah. (Oh no, there she goes referring to herself in third person again – a sure sign that she’s lost her mind.) We’ve had insurance issues that cannot get resolved, life issues that keep mounting, and, of course, the “usual” rigor of putting Ben …
Common Courtesy
A couple of weeks ago, I was coming out of Target and had the privilege of watching an oversized SUV as it ran into the front of my car. I stopped in the middle of the street, my arms outstretched in the universal pose of “what the frick was that?” as the couple exited from …
Last week, my beautiful daughter started middle school. I wrote her a letter in hopes of giving her a little extra support during these tumultuous years. My darling Madeline, Today is your first day of middle school! What an adventure! I remember my first day of middle school like it was 36 years ago – …
International Cat Day
Last week sucked. And since I have nothing nice to say about it, I’ll talk about cats instead, since today is International Cat Day. For the first half of my life, I considered myself to be a cat person. The first cat I remember having was a big black cat that my Grandma Sarah picked …
I’m not really a b*tch, I just play one in your life.
I have a BIG apology to make. The Southwest Airlines counter at Denver International Airport got a giant taste of crazy on Sunday thanks to my multi-car emotional pile-up. Thankfully, there weren’t any casualties, but my insurance rates are definitely going to go up. Here’s what went down: As many of you know, I’m upset …
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Stronger Than I Look 