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“Hi, I am the one that needs you.” (Mon, 30 Aug 2021)
ASK A QUESTION I want what you have or at least what you said you had as of May 21, 2021. 43 days of sobriety. I want to know how to do that. Cold turkey? Meetings? Therapist? I just need the timeline. What made you decide? And how many days til I start feeling like I can handle it? How many white-knuckle days ...
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My COVID-19 Experience (with video) (Fri, 20 Mar 2020)
The first thing I’m going to say is that what I am going to describe to you today has nothing to do with any of the news I talked about or teased yesterday while talking to those of you who joined me for Quarantine Book Club (I AM NOT GETTING MARRIED, Y’ALL). Oh, and, yeah. ...
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“But I know how Rapunzel felt in the tower, when she wanted to feel the rain shower…” (Tue, 17 Mar 2020)
Let me start by saying that this is going to be all over the place, a fair warning to those who like to diagnose me. You’re going to have a field day with this one. A party without your pants on. I’ve got four kids at home and have less than two hours to get ...
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“This goes beyond me, beyond you” (Mon, 24 Feb 2020)
Hi. Hello. Let’s begin with: I am one of very few people you probably know who at my age have not lost someone very close to me. I have never lost a friend or a relative unexpectedly. I have been spared that trauma for 44 years, and I know how strange that is. I talked ...
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A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Thu, 20 Feb 2020)
I have to remind everyone before I say anything about THIS THING THAT IS HAPPENING TO ME ALL CAPS that I left the LDS Church and all religion period because a linguistics professor at BYU made me deconstruct an essay about Ebonics. If you don’t know what that word refers to your skin is probably ...
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