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Chapter 3: The Awkward Teen Years
I was looking for a good 80s lyric to title this post and seriously considered this one for a minute: "Out from the ruins, out from the...
Childhood: Chapter 2
Subtitle: The Mississippi Years When I was in sixth grade, our parents sat us down at Family Home Evening and told us that Dad was...
Childhood: Chapter 1
Usually once Marc Maron's guest talks about how they got into their line of work, he somehow wraps the conversation back around to the...
Psych 101
Okay, I promised y'all the Psch 101 story. So it's 1985. I'm 19. In my young foolishness (and resentment toward my mother...oh lord...now...
Do It Up! (Boomer Lives!)
Every time I listen to Marc Maron's WTF podcast, I find myself answering his questions in my head and thinking, "I want Marc Maron to...
We're Not Gonna Pay
I guess everyone's talking about Rent Live today - many of them much more qualified to opine than me. But I do have some thoughts...
Music in a Minor Key
I'm in a rundown backroom where only half the lights are working. A hand-lettered poster board alerts patrons to the location of the...
That's a Personal Question
I say that I never read memoirs and I really don't, but I find myself reading Tara Westover's Educated after having just finished...
Spotted
There was a time when I worked at the make-up counter at Macy's. It was the late 80s and I wore a lot of makeup. To be fair, we all wore...
I Turned Myself to Face Me
There is going to be a lot of ch-ch-ch-changes in 2019. There's my big, bold projection. As a country, I expect we will finally see some...
