hello, maintenance? this is erika's husband. can you please clean up the carcasses of the deceased moths from the hallways? it's a blight.

Mopped the floor today, it was long overdue. I hate it when things get too dirty, but I still let it happen. In this instance it wasn’t entirely my fault. We were out of mop... [Continue reading →]

How to organize the cables under my desk?

There’s a mess of cables under my desk; it looks like a bowl of spaghetti, spattered on the floor, intertwined together in no... [Continue reading →]

This is 25: Got my chin hairs zapped, three crushes (each going absolutely nowhere, which is probably for the best), graduated from therapy (sort of), reading bell hooks (have i ever known true love?)

I don’t know when it happened that I went from one barely discernable chin hair to a half-beard, but the situation was becoming untenable, so, like the other women in my family, I went for an... [Continue reading →]

I met the Love of my Life at Linger Longer Lounge

Clickbait title! Hello!

I went to a sold-out show at the Linger Longer Lounge today. I kept getting emails from Bandsintown about this band, Practically People, and how they had a performance this... [Continue reading →]

nothing important happens in Tucson! (just kidding)

What do I like about this desert? The people or the place? I had a nice day and felt a sudden sadness at the realization that I would one day leave this place, and the people.... [Continue reading →]