Writer, musician, sci-fi nerd, appreciative of all things fuzzy, coffee and sushi freak. ✌🏻
How does that curse go? May you live in interesting times. Boy howdy, they said it. Whoever said it - no one knows where the quote originated from. But two weeks ago if you'd told me I'd be in quarantine and blogging about my grocery store trip three days ago I'd . . . … Continue reading Hairspray and Sushi Rice – or How to Stress Buy in a Pandemic
I'd heard it was coming. Today the headlines hit. Belmont University to Absorb Watkins College of Art "Absorb." Such a pathetic word to use for the closing of a 143-year-old art school. The only word more pathetic in this is "synergy." It's about two-thirds of the way down the article. I wasn’t surprised a … Continue reading I Stand With Watkins’ Students and Their Vote of No Confidence
Spoilers for Unicorn Store on Netflix - proceed with glitter and caution. Dear Kits, You know who you are. Of course you do. The ones who never fit in. The artistic ones. WEIRD. Different. Unique. Non-conformists. They have different names for us, but they damn sure can't fit us in a box, (with or … Continue reading To the Kits of the World – My Take On the Unicorn Store
I love Boston. I miss Nashville. I can say these two things at once. It’s possible to look forward and behind at the same time. . . Although the better thing is to stay in the present. But I don’t do that very well. And the present is homesick. Not homesick for whatever Nashville became. … Continue reading I Left Before the Cherry Trees Did
I have a reporter friend . . . well, more of an acquaintance, but if I saw him in public I'd say hello and probably ask if he wanted to grab a cup of coffee if he wasn't busy at the moment. Anyway, I know this reporter who writes about the community here in Nashville … Continue reading One Paycheck Away From Homelessness
It’s a beautiful thing. The base is black and shines like glass. It might be glass, or some sort of shiny ceramic glaze. The black base sits on several rings of antique gold, and the arm extends up in more swoops and swirls of antique gold. Do you call the upright part of a lamp … Continue reading The Lamp
I am the nighttime desk manager at an art school. My exact job description is "Herding Cats." There is not a support staff here at night, so any problems that arise with students or teachers or stalkers or half-naked crazy people screaming in the parking lot, I get to handle by myself. (Yes, the half-naked … Continue reading Work Email
This started out as a Facebook post, but I decided to post it over here instead. So I've just started binge-watching a new show, and I'm obsessed with the theme song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledHVF1ZtDI The music for the entire show is spectacular, and it's composed by my favorite Hollywood composer, Bear McCreary. A few years ago, I … Continue reading I Despise Bagpipes
I'm sitting in philosophy class. I've been in college long enough to become disenchanted with it. I'm bored with these classes I'm forced to take with professors who aren't interested in me or the topics they're teaching. The instructor walks in the room, stands in front of the classroom and asks, "How do you … Continue reading Black Hole Sun and My Childhood Nightmare
So this showed up in my Facebook feed this week: So of course I had to post it and see what happened. What happened is I got some random questions, some thoughtful questions, and some rapid-fire funny questions by an inebriated friend of mine. I enjoyed tackling ALL of the questions, and got wordy and storyteller-y … Continue reading Ask Me My Top 5 Anything
