i’m confused about something. everywhere i go now i hear, “bad boys, ooh the bad boys. men! they’ll just break your heart. they’re such heartbreaking heartbreakers! they’ll take advantage of ya! they’ll rob ya blind! they’ll sex ya up and leave ya cryin’!” where?? where are these men? in what area can they be found? [...]

i’m struggling with something and since this is the world wide web i thought, “what better place to share your struggles and problems than world wide?” there’s a thought completely devoid of logic for you. but in this case it makes sense. i’m suffering, interweb. suffering. i have this weird writer’s block thing going on. [...]

i take it as a sign of my impending nursing home commitment that i don’t recognize any of the channels on the station guide to my television. i’m paying an outrageous sum for an ungodly number of channels that i don’t even understand. when i click “guide” i see channels with initials like “LGM” and [...]

in bed last night matt threw one out at me. it was vintage matt. “i think i have brain damage.” naturally, i did what any supportive girlfriend would do. i laughed. “you do not. don’t be ridiculous.” “oh no, yeah. i think i do. i’m serious. i think it was all those drugs. i think [...]

i’ve just realized tonight that i’ve written almost exclusively about the boys lately. kurt vonnegut died last week and i didn’t even note it in passing. things happen. every day. they keep happening and it’s as if i’m in a vacuum where the only substantial things that cross my radar are the fruit of my [...]

it doesn’t take a terribly long time to realize you’re growing up. nor does it happen in the wink of an eye. there is no magical, golden moment. the world doesn’t suddenly alight with a strange aura wherein the angels of heaven come singing with one voice about how, today, the decree has been passed [...]

the thing about meeting your SO’s family is that you want to do it, but you really, really don’t want to do it. i mean, you do. but you’d rather not. clear enough for you? i’m supposed to up and fly to maine next month for matt’s sister’s wedding. there i will meet everyone in [...]

i’m not a femi-nazi lunatic. not generally. i mean, i’m all for equal rights for women so long as we end up doing what The Men tell us to. and i really think, you know, everyone should be treated the same. regardless of whether they have dangly bits or an innie. but in no way [...]

yesterday morning jacob asked me why god gave people diseases. he wondered if maybe he was lonely. “do you think he gets bored, mom? like maybe he gets bored with the people who are there and he wants someone else to party with so he brings other people up?” “anything’s possible,” i told him “stranger [...]