Cooler than You: Stupid Things I Say and Do

There's been an organic breakfast food ad fluttering about the net, and the jist of it is all the super feasts women perform first thing in the morning project from the reel.  One: something like 25 percent of us check email before even getting out of bed. I--if you didn't guess--am one of those women. So, a little after 8 am yesterday--as I didn't have a full cup of coffee in me yet nor was I out of bed--my hazy eyes and comfortable body found a jolting start.  On a day working from home, the lack of commute usually means a few more articles to lazily read and a moment to dick around online. Hence, when I got an alert someone tagged me in a photo on Facebook I didn't think twice about it. Until I opened it. Did I tell you this was at 8 am, well slightly after? Between the lack of coffee and such when I opened the link I was certainly taken aback.  I had forgotten it was even a "day." Then . . . then I saw a photo of me and a friend clowning around at m...

As spring has been slow to rise, life has not been slow on the upswing as we find ourselves saying closer to middle age than not.  Yea . . . I look around, when in the hell did I hit middle aged? Somewhere between 1992 and now I would presume.  Closer to now, but the exact date . . . probably when I started making millennial jokes (some deserving, some just me getting on mid life snark).  Anywho, while I haven’t posted here in a month I have been appearing around the web.   Yes, another moment when I look around and say “how in the hell did that happen?” Let’s see, my main press did an author interview with me.   In it I reveal the secrets of life, love, and happiness.  Okay, well if you’ve either met me or read on here you already know that I long eschewed faith in long term love relationships . . . but, the sides of me that people like certainly appear.  The editors, intern, and such all enjoyed it very much.  Enjoy, if you will....