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Circuit of the Americas: Austin, Houston and San Antonio
Formula 1 brought Ginger Spice to Allen’s Boots in Austin (photo not shown, well because, balls to ask for photo were not packed in carry-on, weight restrictions and everything else). A job interview brought me. But that’s not actually why I’m bootin’ and scootin’. To have had my very first cowboy boot experience has me […]
Posted in: Writing But Like For A Living
Love List: Thanksgiving
October 9, 2014
I love waking up in a fort. Built by nephews on tippy-toes, on early, early mornings before the sun’s even awake. I love spray-painted woodland creatures… …tree trunks that look just like front paws… …double-parked geese who wait patiently for me to find and zoom my camera phone that’s never in either one of my […]
Posted in: It's Like Thanksgiving Everyday!
Dear White People
June 20, 2014
Dear White People might be the third time. The first time, I cried, and in a theatre too! Big tears, big bawling tears too close to the screen because there was nowhere else to sit in an almost sold out showing of the John Travolta movie, Phenomenon. He bites into that apple with Kyra Sedgewick’s […]
Posted in: I Just Like It A Lot
FAT HER’S DAY SALE
June 10, 2014
Beyoncé’s drunk in love with a real person, whatever works. I’m married to dark chocolate covered almonds and I’ve been snacking, I’ve been snacking. Can’t keep my fingers off them, I want it annulled. Woke up on the bathroom scale crying, How the hell did this shit happen, oh food baby!? So, it’s on the […]
Posted in: I'm Over It
The Vulnerable (Sector Search)
June 9, 2014
You need this if you’re working with kids in Canada and were born before January 14, 1986. You can’t just roll up to 40 College Street (Toronto Metropolitan Police Headquarters) and get one. Not without a completed waiver from your potential employer. Even if you came with the $50 money order made out to Toronto […]
Posted in: (un)Employment
Forty-Three (I Wanna Pole You)
June 4, 2014
It’s not a compliment. If you’re at a southern, South Korean bar and a guy comes up to you, saying that, to your face. It’s Busan. It’s a tight-knit ex-pat community down there, but still. It’s definitely not nice. It’s embarrassing if you’re there in a group of teachers from work. If that Irish colleague […]
Posted in: Conversations with Strangers, Overheard
Maya Angelou Died Today
May 28, 2014
It’s crazy how I just had to take a picture of this bucket in the food section at Winners. Made me think of bucket lists and the life I’d like to be living this Wednesday and just adding tequila would surely get me over the hump. Without having heard about Maya Angelou, I still thought […]
Posted in: World News, Writing But Like For A Living
“Fake it ’till you make it…”
May 20, 2014
…home. To binge watch the rest of Grey’s Anatomy. How’s it going? Ugh, I just wanna dance… This is my inside voice sung by the Bootstraps I hung on to today like my life depended on it, first day back to work after a long holiday weekend: And my outside voice here, if asked in […]
Posted in: (un)Employment
“Don’t do it then!”
May 18, 2014
Okay. An inside joke changed my life. Me and a friend were on this bus that sometimes did a double shift on Sundays, going the extra mile all the way down to the beach. So it was rich watching the driver not a give a shit about an elderly woman struggling with her stuff off […]
Posted in: Shout Outs
Feathers make the blog, Mark Twain!
Hyperactive Inefficiency 
November 15, 2014
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