Monkey off my back
I can breathe again. That tightness in my chest is gone, along with the shallow breathing, sweaty pits, and that shooting pain in my ass. Digitalis? Inhaler? Botox Injections? New Hemorrhoid cream?...
View ArticleShoot Your Television
Divorce upset my apple cart in about 29-quadzillion ways (existential break just sounds pretentious), but the one that really hit me where I live was LOSS OF CONTROL. I was (am) a bit of a control...
View ArticleSinging about Search Engine Optimization
It’s been said that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”. “Dancing About Architecture” was the title of music column that Ken Lieck wrote for the The Austin Chronicle for over 10...
View ArticleLooking for Mr. “Right Now”
I reactivated my online dating profile about ten days ago, and it feels so different this time. I used Match.com for a few weeks in 2011 immediately after the WNE moved out (stupid, stupid girl). I...
View ArticleSo Happy I Could…
Several times recently, friends or acquaintances have looked at me appraisingly and said, “Are you happier?” I assume they are asking, in some form or fashion, “didn’t things really turn out for the...
View ArticleReboot Fail
It happened yesterday. Surprising, perhaps, to no one but me. I found myself living the emotional equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death, sobbing (howling, really) in my car as I drove home from...
View ArticleRe-Seize the Day
April 11, 2011 June 1, 2011 September 6, 2011 September 13, 2011 April 11, 2012 I find it difficult to tell my “divorce story” without a curiously specific use of dates. “On April 11th, the shit hit...
View ArticleDon’t lose my number, Baby
Oh, Holy $@%!, lose THAT one! I knew it would happen one day, and last night it finally did. I gave a strange man my Ex’s phone number instead of mine (our numbers are only one digit apart). I used...
View Article‘Tis the Season
I do feel a certain rising panic when our temps are still in the ’90′s and I flip-flop into some store on a simple quest for dog chow, only to get lost in acres of tinsel-covered trees, life-sized...
View ArticleCat Fight
I’ve got some beef with the Former Friend. I’ve called her a lot of things in the past couple of years, including themarriedladyfromchurchwhoranoffwithmyhusband, so FF is probably as good as it’s...
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