The song I chose to be married to this article is Otis Redding’s lovely rendition of Security. I am a seriously devoted Otis fan going back to my early childhood when I would listen to my mother’s records on our Hifi. While I’m also an Etta fan, her rendition changed the connotations of the songContinue reading “Security: The Shameful Confession of a Pretend-Instagram Ho”
Category Archives: Mixtape
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
October is scary movie month on all your favorite media outlets, and who doesn’t love to be scared? As a lover of all things spooky, (just ask me about my long term crush on David Duchovny for his portrayal of Fox “spooky” Mulder) I have decided to participate by giving you some of my all-timeContinue reading “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps”
Levitate Me: A Romantic Daydream
When I’m on a hotel elevator, I like to hit the close door button on men, specifically if they make eye contact with me as they approach. Then I like to fantasize that in that moment, when they saw me, and our eyes locked, they fell madly in love with me, but then the elevatorContinue reading “Levitate Me: A Romantic Daydream”
Relax, don’t do it.
Veronica walks into her home from an exhausting day. Sighing heavily, she shakes off her coat and bag and angrily peels off the layers of business casual. Gleefully, she remembers her husband has taken the kids to visit his parents. What will she do with all this spare time? There’s nothing like a hot soothingContinue reading “Relax, don’t do it.”
We Are the Champions
The crowd of parents lined the field cheering for their respective students. I was position four, the last person in the relay, meant to bring it home as quickly as humanly possible. I waited for the ever-scrappy Odelia to make her way across the field and back to me with the baton. The other lanesContinue reading “We Are the Champions”
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