Travesty Tuesdays- An Apology and a Plea
In honour of Candy*’s visit, this Travesty Tuesday post is a postcard that I wrote to Candy’s mother. Last June Candy came to visit for a couple of days. In this correspondence I was petitioning that...
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My seventeen year old cousin Candy* is visiting us for March Break. I’ve done quite a bit to try and amuse her; we’ve grocery shopped, gone to four different pharmacies in search of my favourite...
View ArticleTravesty Tuesdays- I Don’t Know If There’s a Title To Encompass The Contents...
Over the March Break my youngest cousin came to visit me. I had grand plans for what we would do. But between my young cousin’s penchant for sleeping til mid afternoon and my tendency to go to bed...
View ArticleWriter’s Block
So I went to my normal spot in the library, third floor tables, under the sky light, right in between the homeless man who talks to himself and the homeless man whose odor speaks for him. But no magic...
View ArticleIn The Event Of An Emergency Send Spun Sugar and Large Inflatable Reptiles
When I was a child I was ticked off, absolutely enraged by the fact that there is no new TV in the summer. And then I stopped watching television so it became a moot point. Recently however, I...
View ArticleTo Avoid Decapitation By Prehistoric Lizards Keep Appropriate Urine Cups Next...
A seven hundred pound alligator trapped me in my bedroom last night. Through the door I could hear intermittent huffs and loud slithers whenever it moved lazily across my living room floor. I suffer...
View ArticleTravesty Tuesday – Tricycle Rides and Unfortunate Sleeping Arrangements
The Great Unwashed- “I’m putting up a Travesty Tuesday post.” Roscoe- “But it’s Friday.” The Great Unwashed- “You know that saying “It’s five o’clock somewhere?” Well it’s Tuesday somewhere. It’s a...
View ArticleIf It’s Big, Red and Painful; Go To Emerg
My seventeen year old cousin Candy* is visiting me for March Break. I’ve done quite a bit to try and amuse her; we’ve grocery shopped, gone to four different pharmacies in search of my favourite...
View ArticleDaily Weirdness Wednesdays: Me and My Candy Pants
I have an obsession with twenty-five cent candy machines. It’s getting a little out of hand actually; when my pockets turn up only dimes, I’ve debated busking next to the cheerful metal and glass...
View ArticleThe Chocolate Wars
Left to my own devices, I would be one of those people featured on TLC’s “My Six Hundred Pound Life”, I’d also have gestational diabetes and my tiny fetus would be a peep. “Congratulations, it’s a...
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