All three of my kids are performers. My youngest longs for the bright lights of Broadway, my middle child plays drums and sings in a rock band, and my oldest dances. I love nothing more than to watch them shine on stage. We spend our nights shuffling them to and from practice and listening to […]
Much like snow days, dance competitions have a certain flow to them. Since, it’s a dance competition weekend for us so I thought I’d share, and commiserate, with all of you how it usually goes. The Week Before Find out when you’ll actually be dancing. Up until this point, you’ve had the whole three days
We’ve already talked about this here, and here but! There is actually a little bit of good news on the family vlogging front. Somewhere, someone is doing something! Incredible! I’d lost hope that it was possible for bureaucracies to actually give a shit about helping people, so I am going to revel in this small
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Six months ago, the Washington Post lost over 250,000 subscribers when the paper was prevented from endorsing Kamala Harris for President. (It’s typical for papers to endorse a president.) Unsurprisingly, most papers endorse the person who aligns with the overall political views of the opinion section. Speculation was that the billionaire owner, seated prominently at
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Guys, Friday is freaking finally here. I don’t know about you, but this has been the weekest of weeks. Every day is a new terror. That’s what they say, right? I hope you all have incredible weekend plans, or more incredibly have absolutely nothing to do and can stay at home reading in your favorite
My Weekend is Booked – Beheadings, Ghosts in the Wall and Evil Monkey Toys? Read More »
In writing about how changing my name could affect my ability to vote, and I’ve done it twice, I was reminded of the internal chaos when I changed it the first time. I’ve always been a bit of an overachiever. I talked super young and passed that along to my own progeny. I read way
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Sigh. January was 5,000 years long. Civilizations rose and collapsed while we watched endless parades of performative but meaningful executive orders get signed. We confirmed to key cabinet positions people who spouted about merit based hiring while seemingly wildly unaware of the concept of irony. We wept. And sometimes laughed. But it was hollow. I
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Last weekend marked the beginning of the dreaded dance season. An action packed 2-3 months of glitter, feathers, tights, and more butt glue (I swear to God that’s real) than a girl could ever possibly need or presumably want. That butt glue is sticky as hell and sometimes you have to rip the costume back
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I may not be the ideal person to talk about this. I have a white skin that would incite jealousy in most ghosts. Skincare brands don’t sell colors light enough for me. If it weren’t for the flush in my face, I’d look constantly like I was dying of consumption. There are so many people
Whitewashing History is Nothing New: Now It’s Mandatory Read More »
Ah, consumption. That ‘old-timey’ disease. Inexplicably romanticised throughout art of all kinds in the 19th century. It was the hottest thing to die of. I usually prefer not dying, but alas, it was a different time. Personally, I’m hoping for death via something sudden in my sleep when I’m, like, I don’t know, 93. This
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