My misadventures as a single creative writer in the Mother City
He leaned in closely, peering from his spot in front of me, at the cover of my book, and I held my breath… “Is it as good as the YOU series on Netflix?”, he asked, eyebrow raised, staring deep into my eyes to gauge my response because yes, this was still in the middle of […]
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Kids, I know it’s been a while since we’ve chatted. I’m sorry. The truth is your momma has been grieving and trying to remember how to live a little. Which, in July 2021, is still confusing as fuck. The great news is I got vaccinated: The other great news is that my freelance writing business […]
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Kids, in the winter of 2021, the truly awful, unexpected and unfair happened: we lost your vibrant, beautiful, feisty, larger-than-life Aunt Yolisa. She was only 41, far too young to be shuffling off of this mortal coil. While you have certainly heard the incredible story of How I Met Your Aunt Yoli over and over […]
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Kids, by June 2019, the flirtation with Jet was at an impasse. We’d moved beyond the shy greetings and gentle teasing at the office with plenty of interaction at our recent company staff party. We’d been seen together so often and there were videos of the night’s events where he was caught on camera staring […]
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Him: “Change your plans. Meet me for sex. You will enjoy it””
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Test tube: “Hey Beautiful. Do you come here often?” Me: ” Only when I’m trying to get knocked up by you.” Even in my f***ed up fantasies about conceiving you by sperm donation, I utterly sucked at flirting… Kids, in the winter of 2018, I was facing the very real and harsh reality that meeting […]
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Kids,falling in love is a miraculous thing… that butterflies-in-the-tummy feeling,the bounce in your step when you see the object of your affection,the smirk you give when they say or do something silly and sweet,the hours (and I mean hours) of crazy back and forth texting and the way your heart soars when they utter your […]
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Kids,I’ve found over the long, LONG course of my singlehood that people (i.e. wives and girlfriends) assume that single women are so desperate, they are hitting on guys,especially attached ones, constantly. Oh hell no! More often than not, we’re batting these desperate men away with holy water and a cross: Case in point: my shady […]
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“Can I kiss you?”, he asked, and I nodded yes before he laid one on me…
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Kids, as you’ll recall, I hit the pause button on finding your Dad as a birthday present to myself in November 2017…One week and a bit into this experiment, things were going relatively well. With my fingers getting a break from swiping left or right and my eyes lifted up and away from my phone […]
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