I was standing in a grocery line behind a guy who was going off on the cashier. The store didn’t carry his beer in bottles. That was the whole crime. He was rude about it. She was clearly upset. She rushed him through and got him out of there as fast as she...
I was having dinner at the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine when a woman walked past our table dressed as Britney Spears. Blonde. Crop top. Full early 2000s Britney. Then another one walked by. Then another. At some point you have to stop pretending you’re not staring...
I taught a paint party in the middle of the day and then went to pick up my daughter from school. Pixie was in 3rd grade. I had been going nonstop, party after party, and I never unpacked the car. Not from that party. Not from the two before it. So I pull up to the...
I went bankrupt before I was 30. Bobby and I got overextended. Then we lost our jobs. Then we lost everything else, which happens faster than you would think once the first domino goes. The car. The house. All of it. I was raised to believe that borrowing is fine as...
“I just need to get better at my craft first.” Nobody argues with that sentence. Not your husband, your friends, and especially not the voice in your own head. It sounds like discipline. You make it sound humble, like you’re taking your work...
It was winter and our washing machine was broken. This was not long after the water moccasin situation, which is its own story for another day. We were living in a trailer we had borrowed $6,000 to buy. It was far from perfect. The place had holes in it from mice. It...
