There’s nothing like a trip to the courthouse to make me feel both totally relieved and scared as hell. I feel like I’m living in the audience of a game show studio right now. Tiny, flashing lights blink in dizzying patterns on a light blue backdrop behind the stage. There’s an arched entrance to the…
Today is Thursday. A year has passed. Then. Now. Exactly one year ago today, I was sitting on our couch, watched by a trooper as the state police executed a search warrant on our house. I was a little chilly – our furnace had broken down the days earlier – and I really had to…
A couple of weeks ago, I made a spur of the moment impulse purchase: a tamagotchi. Does a 42-year old woman with a full-time job and a head full of anxiety need a tamagotchi? No. Is this same woman capable of taking care of a tamagotchi when she can barely keep her own life in…