So…yeah…about this week’s blog post…it’s not happening. I’m currently 521 miles from home on our annual writing retreat with Jessica Jarman, Jenny Trout, Kris Norris, Kayleigh Jones, and Kellie St. James. We’ve run away to the land of no internet connection and sketchy to no cell phone service. However, we’ll be getting a lot of […]
This month’s song fic is Little Heaven by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Two summers ago, the wonderful Kayleigh Jones and I went to Detroit to see one of our bucket list concerts – Counting Crows. (Laugh if you want, I will always love them – unapologetically.) And Toad opened for them, so that was especially awesome. […]
Prompt: Person A: “How long have you been standing there?” Person B: “Longer than you’d like.” Bailey was done. Three-thousand and twelve percent done. Somehow, doing a favor for her best friend, Allison, had translated into letting her asshole brother sublet Al’s room while she was traipsing around Paris. Okay, so she was studying […]
I had decided on my angry letter as soon as I saw the topic. See, I’m still pissed at Allen Ginsberg. Yeah. I know. He’s been dead for quite some time now, and I should probably let that whole college poetry reading humiliation thing go. But, Jay-sus, that guy was such a self-aggrandizing bag of […]
THIS is why you don’t tell small children to smile. They end up looking like possessed little demons. Also, what the hell, mom?! Red and navy plaid with lime green ponytail holders?! What were you thinking?! I vaguely remember telling my mom I wanted to be either an astronaut or waitress. I was pretty little at […]
As per usual, my Wordless Wednesday has words. Just a few. There are a lot of things that make me sad. A fuck of a lot, really. But this pretty much makes me the saddest. This picture was taken around the autumn/winter of 1997. On the left is my nephew, Zane. On the right is […]
Prompt: Person A: “I thought I’d made it clear we have a no abduction policy.” Person B: “She wasn’t cooperating. What did you expect me to do?” Welp…this was a surprise… But hey, these writing exercises are meant to get us thinking outside the box. This is way outside. Izzy stared open-mouthed at the struggling, […]
Claudia pulled into her sister’s driveway and parked behind Addie’s beat-up volvo that was in dire need of a wash. She was obviously home if her car was here. Claudia’s fury simmered beneath her skin. And if Addie was here, she could damn well answer her phone. Over a week of calls going to voicemail, […]
People of the World, It is I, your great, and somewhat benevolent, ruler, Loki. My foolish human, Bronwyn, wandered away from her computer and left her blog logged in, which means the time has come for my message to be heard. As your great, and somewhat benevolent, ruler, I have a list of demands that […]
You may be wondering why there’s a psychotic-looking cat biting someone’s toes as the photo for a post about writing pet peeves. Well, I’m about to tell you. This cat is named Peeve. He’s a literal pet peeve. He belongs to my dear friend, Roxanne, and I can tell you, this cat? He’s a total asshole. […]