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About a year ago, a woman named Debbie from the church I used to attend passed away. If I remember correctly, she had died in her home and no one knew about it until a while later.

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>Bob Newhart appeared on the comedy show Mad TV years ago and performed a skit with the actress Mo Collins. Mo plays a woman who had a first time visit with a psychiatrist, played by Newhart. In this meeting, she gives him a litany of complaints about what is ailing her—her fear of being buried […]

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Last night, I wrote the blog that I posted early this morning. It was so early, I was half asleep and didn’t put together the fact that I was posting on 9/11. When I realized what I did, I just about kicked myself in the arse and let out a Homer Simpson “Doi!” It’s so […]

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Nine years ago I left a cushy job at Accenture to pursue my dreams in the music business. I packed up everything I owned (thankfully not much) in my 1992 Mitsubishi Eclipse I called “Shabazz” (my beau’s name is Jabazz, isn’t that weird?), and drove down to Music City USA.

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The thing with having a healthy love relationship with someone that you hope to spend the rest of your life with is in having to reveal the bad and the ugly. What sucks is that it’s usually not a one-time deal either. Lately I’ve been feeling like the Awesome Blossom Chili’s used to have on […]

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I miss my sister and she hasn’t even left yet. I live on the East Coast. She is smack in the middle of the Bible Belt, only a few days away from trekking her way to Oregon. There she will be in a different time zone, in a different environment, with different people. And though […]

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My sister-in-law’s ice-blue eyes sparkled in the silhouette of the aquarium behind us as she turned to my boyfriend and said, “You know, AJ has low self-esteem.” I was mortified. I know she spoke other words that dangled in and around that sentence, but all I heard was: AJ. Has. Low self-esteem. She might as […]

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My hair dresser is a twenty-something, non-practicing Catholic who believes in Jesus. He’s also gay and, surprisingly, very conservative. Every time I plop in his chair wearing the salon’s unflattering black smock and he devilishly eyes my mop to see what creative thing he can do with it, we immediately launch into discussions about the […]