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be here now

Posted by lyn | Dec 29, 2011 | true story | 16

This is the first Christmas we did not travel to see our extended family. I could say this was on...

rough

Posted by lyn | Dec 22, 2011 | everyday life | 8

It’s been a rough week, man. Rough like tree bark. Rough like that time you were running and you saw a tree and you were like I need to climb that tree RIGHT THIS SECOND so you beelined over there and commenced scrambling...

the knowing

Posted by lyn | Dec 15, 2011 | musings | 27

How can someone else ever really know you? How can someone else know the fictional lives that play...

taking shots

Posted by lyn | Dec 12, 2011 | rant | 15

I’d just put on LMFAO’s “Shots” and the beau was dancing in the most ludicrous manner possible: lots of hip-wiggling and butt-thrusting. He stuck his tongue out in concentration and pumped his arms...

finding the happee in holidaze

Posted by lyn | Dec 8, 2011 | everyday life | 13

Something about December makes me want to wrap a festive string of lights around my torso and huddle under a feather duvet with a handle of whiskey and a bowl of melted cheese, and not get up again until I can walk around the...

in which cars require sexual harassment and sensitivity training in the workplace

Posted by lyn | Dec 6, 2011 | rant | 12

You know, I may love, love, love to watch sports on television, but that love is tempered by my...

things to do when you’re on deadline

Posted by lyn | Nov 30, 2011 | jokes | 6

Reread the last post you published. Because you clearly haven’t read it before. Cook eggs. Wash the dishes. Put on a cardigan. Inspect zit on neck. Fine. Zits. Check Twitter. Look out the window. Lean into mirror, tweeze...

everyone

Posted by lyn | Nov 30, 2011 | true story | 26

Over the long weekend, we cabined. Everyone ought to cabin every now and again. To cabin is to...

three and one

Posted by lyn | Nov 23, 2011 | musings | 14

Welp, here I am. Firmly ensconced in my thirties. 30 always seemed a bit tenuous, like I could...

go it alone: part two

Posted by lyn | Nov 21, 2011 | true story | 13

During the last week of October, I had an opportunity to roam southern Arizona by myself for three...

shamelessness

Posted by lyn | Nov 14, 2011 | musings | 31

You know what sucks? Waking up in the middle of the night from a dream in which Santa Claus is making you cry. MOVING ON, THEN. As usual I’m a mite gut-wrenched about this post because it is just so casual and personal,...

you’re being emotional, kevin

Posted by lyn | Nov 10, 2011 | everyday life | 18

I’ve been spending a lot of time alone lately. This is something I am accustomed to, and...

Year: 2011