On Sunday night Leta started coming down with whatever bug is ravaging everyone else on earth apparently and then I walked into Marlo’s room this morning only to feel the heat pulsating from her forehead and singeing the skin off of my body and I…
March 5, 2019
18 years ago on February 27th, 2001, I wrote the first entry on this website, hand-coded the HTML surrounding those words, and sent it to a server in Illinois via FTP. 18 years. In Mississippi my website is old enough to drink a beer in…
February 28, 2019
Let me first start by saying (probably to the chagrin of my general practitioner who doesn’t know about this just yet unless she’s reading this HI, SHANA! Oh, wait. Tangent in the first paragraph within parentheses am I delivering today or what: A few years…
February 21, 2019
Some of you may have seen this photo that I posted on Instagram a few weeks ago. Oh, wait. That was a few weeks ago. A few weeks? HELLO. HI. BONJOUR. The last six weeks of my life have consisted of nothing more than making…
February 19, 2019
We are just going to ignore the absolute shit show that was January 2019—we’re talking wild west circus side shit show extravaganza delight—and get straight to it: I have a book coming out on April 23, and even though I’ve said this before, it bears…
January 28, 2019
Whenever I fill out medical paperwork that asks about my immediate family’s history with disease I have to mark an X in the box next to HEART DISEASE and TYPE 2 DIABETES and HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE and HIGH CHOLESTEROL and DENIES CLIMATE CHANGE. I’ve never…
December 20, 2018
This post is in partnership with LightStream® …… Last week on the drive to the orthodontist Leta asked me if she could open a savings account. I know. Not your typical topic of conversation to have with a 14-year-old kid, and if I had it…
December 11, 2018
Earlier this year I wrote about Marlo’s fourth grade homework and I even mentioned that I knew I’d get a call from the principal for writing about it AND I DID, but I can’t find it so maybe I just talked about it on my…
November 28, 2018
Last week Leta’s trial contact lenses arrived and there is a long story to be told about how incredibly and surprisingly fast that kid got those things into her eyes and the look on her face when she saw the world for the first time…
November 13, 2018
This is one of those insane weeks when you just want to set a Tesla on fire and walk away from it while looking not at it but directly into the camera. A part of you hopes that at least something special to Elon Musk…
October 24, 2018
Dear lord, where am I? I’m pretty sure I turned in the final, final, final, maybe final edits on my book, the edits that also included everything that legal had marked, “Pretty sure you’re not gonna want to say that.” I’m hoping that when this…
October 18, 2018
Late last week I was running several errands when I got a wild hair and pulled off to drive up to the bottom of a nearby canyon. I wanted to see if the trees had started to turn yet—it’s been unseasonably hot until just last…
October 4, 2018
