Who were my parents kidding when they declared my 160k in debt for a degree in Psychology and Spanish was a waste of hard earned …
Life Lessons & Vents
Gardening Tips 2: From One Novice to Another
1. perennials mean it comes back every year.. supposedly. 2. While your screaming bloody murder because a toad had the misfortune of scaring the shit …
Gardening 101: Lessons Learned
I grew up on a half acre of corn, every vegetable imaginable, a strawberry patch and a slew of egg layin’ chicks; gardening should come …
Dating Tips in Los Angeles: What NOT to Do
You chose to go out in hollywood, and now you must pay the price. Figuratively and literally. Channeling my inner blonde LA bitch, this is …
Observations from train car 3, row 8
Plopped in the same purple bench seat, in the same train car, drinking the same weak dunkin donuts black coffee, I can’t help but wonder …
Eulogy For Kristen Jolee Gilson
How do you begin to write a 5 minute speech that should encompass a person’s entire personality, their entire life? Being asked to read a eulogy is …
Happy Birthday Papa
My best friend turned 62 today. Born into a poor family comprised of a single mother, 4 siblings and dozens of cats, chickens and rabbits, …