Monthly Archive:: July 2012

Protected: My 11th Year of Teaching… It’s Finally Happened

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The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 19

Day 1 Zero comments on the last Tulip post. I get on Facebook, which I really shouldn’t do when I’m feeling stabby, and post: Fourteen out of 15 commenters say they do read these posts. I start another edition of the Foster Chronicles. But it’s mostly because I can’t help myself. Day 2 Day 3 [...]

Ducks, But Water

My lack of talent in the kitchen extends beyond the stovetop, over the counter, all the way to the coffee machine. I make coffee that is not good. At work we have Makes a single cup of perfect coffee at a time. I used to use it now and again, in a pinch, but in [...]

Just Now Realizing How Funny This Conversation from a Few Days Ago Was

Me: The problem is, when you buy a 3-pack of underpants— My sister-wife: STOP. The problem IS that you buy your underwear in 3-packs. You’re an adult.

The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 18

Who’s Tulip? Start here. Day 1 Day 2 Friends Craig and Michelle come over, and they bring That’s their 5-month-old pit bull foster, Malcolm. Nom nom, want to put him in my mouf. I put Tulip on the leash and let them interact. He’s a little scared but waggy. Tulip can’t feel her legs she’s [...]

Protected: Get-to-Know-You Letters

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The Lesbian Your Mother Warned You About

From grad_student203: I’m 25 and a grad student in Durham. I’m in a relationship, but I am looking to explore outside of our relationship (with my girlfriend’s consent). I think you have a real, down to earth beauty about you, and I’d love to talk sometime. Thanks! From AndyLeCumm (and no, I didn’t change the last [...]

The Cult

Sometimes people call CrossFit a cult. That’s pretty dumb. I want to say, “Do you know what the definition of cult is?” I guess when people join a group and use a certain lingo or jargon, it has the audacity to make other people uncomfortable, and all of a sudden, it’s a cult. It’s the jargon. People don’t like jargon. [...]

The Foster Chronicles: Tulip, Week 17

Don’t know who Tulip is? Start here. Day 1 MI NI- POO DLE for breakfast playdate!!! (He pisses—no joke—eleven times in my yard. And that’s only the ones I see. I wonder if it drives Redford crazy when he goes out there and finds this fucking Napoleon has planted his tiny flag all over Redford’s [...]

Protected: Chuck, Part 4

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