I’m a romantic. It’s embarrassing and not at all cool to say these days. However, I don’t consider myself hopeless. On the contrary, I’m sometimes annoyingly optimistic. Which is why I love I SAW U ads and craigslist Missed Connections. I’ve been the lucky recipient of two I SAW Us. One from an ex who […]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this here before, but I have two cats. I don’t talk about them often because I’m THIS CLOSE to being the crazy cat lady. The fact that I’m 30, single, and that my social life revolves around my ability to get home to stick Boo, the diabetic one, and […]

I’ve been wanting to write about this for so long. But thought I’d leave it to the more literary blogs. Ryan mentioned it on his. And I keep waiting for Gigi to give us her $.02. But when I saw this, I just had to laugh. And stuff that makes me laugh often makes its […]

Last week, a friend declared, “I’ve decided I’m not reading your blog anymore.” When I asked him why, he said, “It used to be funny and angsty, and now it’s just sappy and happy.” I know he was at least half kidding, but shit. Thanks a fuckin’ lot. I will be the first to admit […]

GTB is in Mexico, and I’m miserable with missing him. He left in the middle of the night Friday (or early morning Saturday, depending on how late you were out drinking) and I’ve been fighting bouts of anxiety at the thought of not seeing him for two weeks and overwhelming longing every time I realize […]

I have been sitting here for about three minutes, staring at the empty blue box where I’m supposed to type the body of this post, drawing total blanks. I can’t think of one witty, intelligent, interesting thing to say about this. Other than HOO-FUCKING-RAY, that is. In ‘Design’ vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome […]

Parrot squawks about woman’s secret affair

When I was a freshman in high school, my boyfriend was the star halfback of the football team. Since he couldn’t drink during the season, and there was nothing else to do in Hometown, we’d drive around in his old, primer-colored, full-sized Chevy pickup and listen to N.W.A., rapping along to such classics as “Fuck […]

It’s dark and rainy (and not even good rainy, like, we’re-about-to-break-a-record rainy, since we had a dry day yesterday, bastards), I might have a stomach virus I caught from kissing GTB all weekend (but I won’t know until 48 hours passes), and everyone I know is either home sick or has the day off (why […]

It’s only slightly melodramatic to say that the Columbia River feels as familiar to me as the blood running through my veins. Just as there are pieces of me that will always be Catholic, there is a significant chunk of The Girl who will always be a bit of a river rat. I’d spend summers […]