My roommate, Anna, asked me last week if religious affiliation was important while vetting potential suitors and the question has had me thinking since then. Aside from quarterly jaunts to Jersey for funerals, my relationship with church and religion more generally since leaving the parochial nest of my youth has been fairly nonexistent. Due in…
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Thanks, Mercury
This week has been interesting. And by interesting, I mean riddled with trash fires of varying degree and magnitude. So in lieu of our regularly scheduled programming aka me writing about the death of a loved one or how much I hate/love New York, here are some thoughts from the week so far… Yesterday I…
Holiday Highs and Sad Goodbyes
I think over the course of January I attempted to write my inaugural 2019 blog post at least eight times. One, which I’ll post at another time, was about a bubble bath (it was a long month) while others I wrote dabbled in the same “New Year, New Me” BS I mock relentlessly at the…
Thank you for smoking.
Smoking is disgusting. I would know - I used to dabble recreationally in this wonderfully addictive practice (hola madre and dadder, sorry!). They don’t tell you in 5th grade why people smoke - it’s awesome, calms you down, and is cheaper than lunch. They also don’t make it clear, aside from the obvious cancer and…
Mahalo for being half over 2017.
This week, like most weeks, I was on the road for work hitting yet another American hotspot... West Virginia. I enlisted Scott to do the driving so I could work and found myself pulling into a campground at 6 pm on Monday night... "it will be fun!" Famous last words. As you can imagine, a…
The Dog Hair Diaries 