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LAUGHING MATTERS is for people who find that laughing matters...even when it's no laughing matter. Join me in finding humor in navigating midlife, music, memoir, and moving to France for a year. Spoiler alert: we moved back!
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But, Burning Man, Part 3: The At-Home Edition (opens the original)
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The Burning Man Festival came to a close on Sunday in the Nevada desert, and only two people died this year! If you don’t know what it is, let me start with…What it was: In 1986, two men, Larry Harvey and Jerry James decided to stick it to the proverbial “man” by creating a meetup for rogues, momentary anarchists, and homeless people on a San Francisco beach by using a bonfire with a makeshift wooden man as its centerpiece. Four years later, it turned into a Wild West of fun and frolic where, fo
R.I.P. Dolly, My American Express Platinum Card, & Another Chicken (opens the original)
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Memoir: “You Don’t Know How To Handle Me” - My Narc (opens the original)
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Hello Ya’ll! As promised, a BONUS POST of a memoir moment about one of the latest infractions I have “done” “to” my Ex. You’d think, after being separated/divorced for fourteen years, things wouldn’t be contentious. You’d think, after trying to turn a new leaf and inviting him to a peace-offering-Thanksgiving dinner, it would have changed the tide. You’d think.But if there’s one thing I’ve learned about being married, and divorced, from a Narcissist it’s this: they never change. <a class
The Snapping Turtle- A Lyrical Poem, Or Metaphor For My Ex-Narcissist (opens the original)
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Ikea, My First Panic Attack, & A Bad Boyfriend (opens the original)
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