Category: Random Randomocity
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To all the recovering alcoholics and drug addicts: Thank you
This article popped up on the sidebar of a news article about Phillip Seymour Hoffman. It’s by Russell Brand, whom I’ve always thought is incredibly articulate and hilarious. (No comment on the Katy Perry thing.) Brand is also a recovering drug addict. In this article, he talks about life after getting clean. Having dated an alcoholic for…
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Why I don’t care if you like me
So here’s the thing about me: I really don’t care if you like me. I actually really and truly don’t. It’s not that I don’t want you to like to me. I actually want to be liked. I want you to think I’m friendly and helpful and funny and occasionally smart and mostly honest and…
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What else can go right? My trick for not wallowing in despair
Complaining can be an art form, doncha think? I really appreciate a well-worded kvetch. But it can also be dangerous if you act like it’s your second job. Hippie Trish wants to tell you to KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF. I was thinking that this morning, as I read yet another excellent post from Ralph Marston,…
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The lonely, lonely storm … and the shoe department
Yesterday I drove away from the warm house where my snuggly-wuggly man was … away from the place where I was supposed to pick up my little munchkins, but a car accident on the main road separated us and the side streets were too icy … away from the center of the road to collide…
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What new parents and single parents have in common (or) I was crazy but it wasn’t my fault
New parents get an average of 5.1 hours per sleep the first year, losing about the equivalent of 44 days of sleep. According to some very half-assed Internet research I just did, the average adult sleeps the equivalent of 121.6 days (meaning 24-hour periods) per year. So new parents get about 77.6 day-units of sleep.…
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How you might be driving yourself crazy
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity. — Franz Kafka (Note to Mr. Kafka: I understand today is your birthday. You don’t look a day over … very, extremely dead.) ——- How often do you sit down and try to dissect the core of your being? For me it’s about every five minutes. Yes, I…