Painting and listening to music. George Michael’s Monkey comes on and I laugh because it’s ridiculous. Then it hits me what the song is really about and I say…fuuuuuudge. Only I don’t say fudge. Cuz yeah. Tim Gunn said once on Project Runway about desensitization that when you enter the monkey enclosure at the zoo […]
Being around an addict feels like this: Your house catches fire. But all the firefighters are tasked with putting out the fire at the coal mine next door because it’s a priority. Everyone is worried about the coal mine fire. “Don’t make the coal mine fire worse!” “The coal mine fire is in crisis! We […]
I have summer seasonal affective disorder. Too much sunlight turns me into a wrath monster. September is historically a bad month after an August full of sunlight. What does it feel like? I can’t get started until 4 or 5 p.m. My brain goes nocturnal. I have zero energy to initiate anything. People who generally […]
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll meI ain’t the sharpest tool in the shedShe was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumbIn the shape of an “L” on her forehead So I’m five or six and the Daisy (Girl Scout precursor) meeting at my house is over. Something has […]
I don’t take compliments well on how I’m dressed. It’s getting to be a problem because now people are calling it out without understanding that it’s not about false modesty. There’s a reason but if I say it to someone when they’re mid, “Vene, learn to take a compliment,” talk, then I have to explain […]
Veneranda Jade 