by Mir | Nov 17, 2015 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I realized I may have—in my attempts to be privacy-shielding and vague—accidentally left the impression that the sky was falling with that last post. And no, I wasn’t smart enough to figure it out on my own; rather, after a bunch of concerned emails...
by Mir | Nov 11, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Everything is fine. In the grand scheme, that is. Everyone’s basically okay, there’s nothing here we can’t handle, and yet… it’s been a hard week or two for various reasons. I’m finding that the interesting thing about being a...
by Mir | Nov 5, 2015 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
So my folks were here visiting for a bit, did I mention that? My father checked the blog one morning and then said, “Your readers aren’t going to like us.” “Huh?” I said, because I’m eloquent and stuff. “When we’re here...
by Mir | Nov 3, 2015 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
For some reason, we don’t really get trick-or-treaters at our house. This means I buy a bunch of candy “just in case” and then no one comes and then a month later I wonder why I’m fat. It’s a mystery! I wonder if I’ll ever solve it!...
by Mir | Oct 27, 2015 | My name is Grumplestiltskin, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
You are just never going to guess what happened to me today. NOPE. NOT THAT. Why, today marks the fifth time in 4 years that my Discover card was hijacked. I have no idea why I’m so popular—or why the dirtbags who try to use it always go spend it so...
