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Tale of a Nearly Naked Neighbor
Zero to Hero’s Day 4 challenge: Explore the Neighborhood, as intended, motivated me to check out and follow a handful of blogs that I hope will be interesting and inspiring. But it also got me thinking...
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Calling all Crazies: Freak Magnet Here
My reputation can be summed up in two words: freak magnet. This isn’t a self-proclaimed status. As reputations go, I’d rather be known as witty, pithy or even nerdy. But if you ask my friends and...
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An Open Letter to Cat-Check Boy
Dear Cat-Check Boy, You don’t even know that’s your name, and I confess I’ve long since forgotten your real one. I met you in 2003. Your strong face and blue eyes struck me from across the bar. You...
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Hooker or Hillbilly? You Decide.
“What were you wearing?” In hindsight, those words my mother uttered both infuriate and amuse me. But let’s rewind 24 hours to put them into context. My sister Charlene, my friend Greg, and I stood...
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What’s Your Dating Dammit List?
The proverbial “they” say imitation is the best form of flattery. In that vein, I’m marrying two posts I stumbled across and loved last week. Natalie over at The Cat Lady Sings created her dammit list....
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What’s Your Weirdest Search Term?
Two weeks ago today, Awkward Laughter crossed a milestone – 1,000 followers. Yippee! I celebrated like any self-professed nerd would; I geeked out on stats. But my efforts to Excel-erise them got...
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Dirty Old Men: 30 30-Somethings
Glass of wine and remote in hand, I lounged on my couch unwinding from an intense day at work. I’d been assigned to a project with one of the senior leaders in our company, and my brain felt drained...
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Playing in the Sandbox: 30:30 Somethings
If my affinity for the male “species” didn’t start at birth, it began soon thereafter. My mother loves to tell childhood stories about it. While my sisters cried like banshees whenever my mom left the...
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