by KimBoo York | Dec 7, 2016 | Life and all That
[tl;dr – do one activist thing a day, such as make a phone call, and you too can save the world!!!!] There is a lot of frustration right now around the sense of helplessness that liberals and progressives are feeling, stemming out of a general consensus that we,...
by KimBoo York | Dec 6, 2016 | Keely-boo
Keely has bad teeth, but she has three less now. [warning: talking about dental/tooth damage] So, the plan was for the vet to extract ONE tooth. Unfortunately when they got a good look, they found a mess. They ended up pulling two pre-molars, which led to one of her...
by KimBoo York | Nov 30, 2016 | Fiction, Life and all That
I’m not known for taking risks. I am, in fact, absurdly risk-averse, so much so that my therapist is really over it. I have already written about pissing off my therapist, and that she is demanding that I take some risks. Oh, she didn’t put it that way...
by KimBoo York | Nov 29, 2016 | Keely-boo
My dearest Keely is still unfurling her personality for me. She’s been my companion for just over two months now and I think she realizes that she’s here to stay. She’s barking more, for one thing. Not a lot, usually when there is a loud noise...
by KimBoo York | Nov 26, 2016 | Life and all That
I once worked a shitty job with a woman who was an out-of-work model. That’s very literally the case, this is not me being poetically descriptive: she was a model who was in between jobs and was temping with the rest of us. She was beautiful, built like a...
by KimBoo York | Nov 24, 2016 | Life and all That
At 48 years old with no children, no siblings, and dead parents, I am very used to “holidays alone.” I still haven’t decided if I prefer it or not, though. It’s very much just another day off for me — doing writing, editing, playing with...
