New Year, New Me
It all started when I bought a planner. I have just a ton of events in the next two months - several of which I am hosting - and when the...


Burned
Surgery: Part Duex (Part Une is here) This time I made Chip come with me. (Although he spent the whole time setting his fantasty football...


Alive
The surgery center called Monday with my instructions. Nothing to eat or drink after midnight. Check in at 11:15 a.m. Which I thought was...


Crooked.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a pain clinic because I'd been suffering acute, debilitating back pain for two weeks and my neurologist...


Why "Hamilton" Meant So Much to Me
I have been a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda since I saw him perform "In the Heights" at the 2008 Tonys. I remember thinking, "Wow, this guy...


"I'm just too colorful for words!"
This weekend I went to a bikers' club to get a tattoo. ​​It's not as shocking -- or as dangerous -- as it sounds. It is, however, full of...


Drawing a line on victim blaming
This morning, I asked on Twitter WHY a person would take someone with PTSD to a gun range, and I was called out for "victim blaming." Let...


Les Meilleur Temps
I was 11 when I went to my first Mardi Gras. It's less scandalous then it sounds. We had moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the fall...


A Tired Beyond Caffeine's Reach
I'm home from the conference and it was engaging and inspirational and exhausting and everything else I'd hoped for. People I liked...