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  • carl dean dolly parton

    Like a breath of spring.

    A few years ago, I submitted this poem to an anthology about your queen and mine, Dolly Parton. It wasn’t selected, but this seems like a good time to share it. Spent…

  • Welcome 2023. I guess.

    Crawling into bed at 12:01 this morning, Jan. 1, I realized that my elderly dachshund had pooed on the sheets. Not all over the sheets, but he’d done a drive-by wipe on…

  • Grief and walnuts.

    Today, Walter tried walnuts for the first time. I was making pumpkin bars and carefully scavenged through the bag of walnuts. I tried to find the pieces that were mostly intact halves,…

  • Shows I’ve watched in quarantine.

    Hi. My name is Becky. I’m social distancing. And I haven’t worn an underwire in a week. Since our girl ‘Rona is keeping us all inside and moderately terrified, I’m just gonna…

  • Who will be Queen of the Prom?

    It’s not nice to brag. And it’s not honest to make your life look better online than it really is. But I just have to tell you. I bought this. For six…

  • Please don’t go guuuuuurl!

    As is the custom of my people, we gathered to pay homage to the teenyboppers of our youth. That’s right, people. I saw New Kids on the Block in concert. Me and…

  • Right on, Bob. Right on.

    A guy my parents used to pal around with recently died. He dropped dead of a heart attack. To say it was a shock is an understatement. I don’t think we give…

  • The best barf story.

    All this talk about stomach bugs makes me look back on the most glorious vomit scene I have ever witnessed. Of course, I’m going to share it with you. There was this…