nostalgia
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Oh Baby
One summer morning, my mom rounded the corner of our hallway and found me, her youngest child, just ten-years-old on the toilet, in turn guzzling soda and grunting. “What are we doing now?” she asked, looking from the two-liter bottle… Continue reading
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9/11/2002
It was the fall semester of my sophomore year in high school. 2002. A weird time for anybody – being a sophomore in high school and all. But also a weird time for being an American – being post-9/11 and… Continue reading
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Don’t Look, Ethel!
Early one morning the week before Christmas I was scrolling through Twitter while drinking coffee. A woman tweeted that she tried showing a clip from the BBC game show Taskmaster to her family while visiting for the holidays. The tweeter’s parents watched… Continue reading
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Hook, Line, and Sucker
Bouncing balls. Jumping children. Painted faces. Squeals. Screams. Laughter. Last weekend, Paris and I found ourselves the only childless couple at a four-year-old’s birthday party in a mini gymnasium. Kids flew around the foam-covered floors and walls, flipping and jumping,… Continue reading
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Journey Back to the Times
It was the first weekend in December 2021, and for the second time in a calendar year, Paris and I were walking through the parking lot of Medieval Times on our way to a matinee show. “We were just here,” I said,… Continue reading
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The Night I Met Santa
When we were little, my sister, Shannon, told me that she knew Santa was real. She had seen Rudolph in real life, so it stood to reason that if Rudolph was real then Santa was, too. I believed her, of… Continue reading
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Fire Sale on a Life Well Lived
One of the best parts about working for myself is doing things at off-hours. Going to the grocery store, for instance, is much less stressful during the day when you’re only there with stay-at-home parents, retired folks, and Instacart shoppers.… Continue reading
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Home Remedy
There was a period in my early thirties that I had a lump behind my right ear. Maybe it was there for a year, maybe 5 years. But right at the base of my ear where my lobe dangles near… Continue reading
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Vocal Coach
I promise this newsletter is not all about people who die. However, this week is going to be about another person who has died. We lost my high school speech teacher, Coach Copeland, this week. He was a mainstay in… Continue reading
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Just Desserts
This past week on the Sinisterhood Patreon, we released a new “Am I the Asshole” episode. There is a website on which users ask whether their behavior in interpersonal relationships is or is not acceptable. The other users judge their behavior by… Continue reading
Heather versus the World 