Thanksgiving sucks. I have always hated it. When I was a child I would always ask my mom a week before thanksgiving, “aren’t the holidays when everybody kills themselves?” My mother would inevitably look down at me and remind me that it’s fun. My mother’s devotion to fun was unnerving, especially during the holidays. So […]
And so it begins… I am looking at this penis on my phone and I want to laugh and cry simultaneously. I am completely shocked, amazed and perplexed at the same time. Should I make fun of the size of his dick? Should I tell him he’s an idiot? Or maybe I’ll text him that […]
I’ve started dating, oh joy! I have joined Ok cupid, a free online dating site. I have never been on a dating website, there was never a need. I’m ready, I say to myself. I’m not ready, I say even louder. I ask my therapist if I am too fucked up to be in a […]
You know when you’re on a walk and you step in gum? First, you silently curse the person that so carelessly dumped the gooey wad, then you try and remove the sole perpetrator by dragging your foot along the ground as if your foot is made of lead. Finally you surrender to the fact that […]
You know when you’re on a walk and you step in gum? First, you silently curse the person that so carelessly dumped the gooey wad, then you try and remove the sole perpetrator by dragging your foot along the ground as if your foot is made of lead. Finally you surrender to the fact that […]
I met Peter when I was fifteen and he instantly became my world. He asked me, on our first date, to go steady. I said yes. Peter was the most gentlemanly man child I had ever met in my vast worldly fifteen years of life. Plus he was a great kisser! He was kind, funny, […]
Paranoia: A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system. Justified: a good or legitimate reason. When Peter died my friend Vivian game me a book called Widow to Widow. The book, as you can imagine outlines things for you to expect during the stages […]
When I was a very little child, maybe five or six, I was an avid reader. Dr. Seuss, Tolstoy, you know what every first grader reads. But there was one book I could never, EVER read by myself. The title of this book is Are you my mother? by P.D. Eastman. I loved and hated […]
When we were planning our family, Peter was dead set against using profanity in front of or anywhere near our children. It’s funny for so many reasons. If you knew Peter you would know that he could string together a list of profanities that would make a longshoreman blush. So we agreed, no cursing in […]
I am dumb. I have always been dumb, it’s not an insult it’s the truth. The simple fact is that I refuse to believe that I am smart. My husband would tell me all the time how I.Q. tests are “not a true measure of someone’s intelligence”. Peter had an I.Q. of 144. While I […]
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