OBSERVABLE SELF: “I think I’ll just let myself go full gray when it all comes in. Lots of women rock gray hair.”

AUTHENTIC SELF: A full head of gray hair? ALL of it? GREY MEANS / LOOKS OLD NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

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TAGLINE: A few generations from now, men have won the battle of the sexes. They weren't counting on a war.

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Another earthquake in Turkey. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64711228

Did a search for TWENTY DEAD IN and this story popped up. The things you find. (Also interesting is how many cases of "twenty dead" there are.) https://www.jpost.com/international/article-710422

An exchange this morning with my husband. Do they really not get it, or is it willful ignorance?

I think I discovered that the easiest way to have a different kind of day is simply to break routine.

I’m addicted to the SmartLess podcast.

Comedy rule if you want more people to like it: “You can’t kill the dog.” - Adam McKay

10 days until the release! Final proofing now of my fight-the-patriarchy coming of age novella, out Feb. 27.

“A few years from now, men have won the battle of the sexes. They weren’t counting on a war.” 😎

I’m middle-aged and am STILL happy to be done with school because I don’t have to think about homework or tests.

I just heard a story on NPR about cuddle parties (strangers meeting up for non-sexual cuddling).

Would you do this? Y/N

A woman in the grocery store pulled down her mask to complain to me, a stranger, about the price of a bakery counter cake and about the fact that the store we were in had higher prices than stores a few towns over and about how it, and everything else, was Biden’s fault because he started everything.

I just wanted my seven layer dip stuff.

“You shouldn’t have done it if you didn’t want me to write about it.” - Chelsea Handler (to her ex)

GINNY & GEORGIA more than anything else makes me certain that I’d have been 10x the emotional mess I was in middle and high school if I’d had to do it with social media and the immediacy of texting. Holy no thank you.

Two days ago, a local Army National Guard unit deployed to the Middle East. Just a reminder that though the media no longer finds it newsworthy, kids/partners/parents/friends are still watching people they love leave for a year or more.

One of the growth moments in my life was recognizing that a certain level or type of psychopathy - and apathy - exists in some people. It just is. This stopped me from wondering, "How could someone kill their whole family?" I'm not sure if the absence of shock and confusion is a good thing or a bad thing.

Still excited about this, now just 20 days away from publication! Eek.