{165} Courage or folly?

by | 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...

{164} Just Keely things, update edition

by | 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...

{161} Why I’m angry about being fat

by | 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...

{159} Thanksgiving alone

by | 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...

{158} Three days of drawing every day

by | Nov 23, 2016 | Life and all That

I think my skills are deteriorating. I committed to drawing every day three days ago, using a modification of the writer’s tool, “morning pages” that I call “daily draws.” I set 15 minutes aside every morning after walking the dog (I...