In another life, let’s say about 13 years back, I was part of the blogging wave that was popular at the time. I started my blog as a way to workshop my essays for traditional publishing—I didn’t really expect my dark humorist memoir style to take off as well as…
Five Days.
Five Days!
That’s all you have to think about how creative you’re going to be with your “starting over” theme, wipe your sniveling noses about opening up the Pandora’s Box of your personal lives, and enter the damn contest — sorry, competition—to take $50 from my bank account…
It doesn’t matter how well you do it and it doesn’t matter how many Pink Floyd songs you do it to — there’s nothing you can do to possibly make baton twirling cool.
I guess if it’s like, say, 1977 and…
Hey, man, I already know I’m the asshole for thinking it — but I’m at my wit’s end. My boss is such a withered old pale freckled prick that I just want to tie him up and torture him 9 to 5 style. I’m not in a position where I…
Hello, all you starvin’ cats ‘n kittens! Mama Ki here. I’m the publisher and crazybroad-in-chief over at your favorite storytelling home base The Memoirist.
What’s that? You haven’t heard of us? Oy vey. Algos and all that jazz.
I have a few FAQs for you. I’ll start with the deets…
“Let’s get away for the weekend,” he said. “It’ll be fun!” he said.
Yet here we sit in this shit hole diner — albeit charming — stuck in a blizzard. I can’t even look at him right now.
I’m so pissed.
I wanted to go to Marie’s party on Saturday…
“You will never be happy.”
Words spoken by my ex-husband that blast in my mind every morning as I wake—like an unforgiving earworm in my own personal Groundhog’s Day.
Sometimes I believe it.
Sometimes I stomp on those words then light them on fire and laugh in my little earworm’s…
I don’t have a problem.
I just want to be upfront about that. However: When I sit down to write, I find it clears my head and my creativity flows better with alcohol. I realize it’s a habit. I realize I’m spewing excuses. …
Hey hey!
(Better late than never, right? Ugh.)
I’m going to make this week’s newsletter short and sweet so I can finally get it out. Please accept my apologies. I’ve been bogged down by life’s big pile of dog crap this week, and every time I think I’m edging my…
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