Writing my last post about my very first restaurant job got me thinking about my old fun-person days as a server in an Irish pub. I started working there the same month I should have graduated college, May 1997, and it was a wholly different rite of passage. I go back and forth about how I feel [...]
During the year I spent back home in Ohio during college, I worked at a crazy redneck bar situated in the middle of a trailer park, nestled up on the shore of a huge manmade lake. Someone in the park regularly brought us turtles from the lake with which we made turtle soup. It was [...]
I’ll distill my birthday post down to its finest essence, and remind myself of the one thing I know is true: This time next year, when I turn 37, all of my energy and resources are going to be focused on having a baby, whatever that takes and wherever it takes me. There is a [...]
I just realized that today is the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death. I saw Nirvana in concert freshman year at George Mason, and we smoked indoors and they smashed up the stage, but desultorily so. Their Unplugged album still has a spot on my various musical devices–Where Did You Sleep Last Night still makes me [...]
“I’m going to ask him,” I say to my Philly friend. We are in an old man bar, and tipsy. ”Of course!” she gushes. ”He totally loves you, of course he does. Just start the conversation. It will go well. Start out easy, but do it.” ************************************ “I’m going to ask him,” I say to [...]
Check it out…Hilarity in Shoes is being featured at Single Edition Media! Read all about it (me)! See a sample below… (Also: Check out the new little tumblr site I’m running in honor of National Poetry Month. One new poem every day for 30 days only. Don’t worry, I’m not writing them, just curating.) Q: In one of [...]
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