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What Is Your First Memory?
It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that The Munch probably isn’t going to remember these first 3 years of her life. What the eff?! I want credit for this shit!!!!!!!! Thank god I write...
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Growing Up is Poopie
The Munch turned 3! This concept seems magical to her. How she was this one number… that number being 2, and then after the second of July she is another number… the number 3. She has been...
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Music Is My Boyfriend
When I think back to my childhood and teen years, the majority of my time was spent in my room, with the door closed, listening to music. I would sing, dance, and play songs that made my cry so I could...
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The House You Grew Up In
The house you grew up in is almost as profound as the people you grew up with. It is like a character in the story of your life. The building that housed your youth serves as a porthole into the...
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Can You Do Me A Favor And Not Ask For Any More Favors?
If you are going to ask people to do favors for you, then be prepared to do favors for them. It is all part of the favor etiquette. You of course act like “I would do anything for you – because I love...
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A Distraction From Life
You know what blows? When you are really excited for something to happen, and it doesn’t go down the way you had planned. It is like experiencing emotional blue balls. You just want to release your joy...
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Supportive vs Competitive Friends
I tend to attract really intense people. I wouldn’t call them crazy, but more bat shit crazy. I am sorry you guys, but you are. I love you. Shhhhhhh… it’s gonna be okay. The kind of person who is...
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Can Grown Ups Still be Wild and Free?
Technically I am wayyyyy far into my adult years, and no longer even considered a “young person” – yet I still don’t identify with my childhood perception of “grown ups.” My image of a real grown up...
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The Smart Phone Vacation
The world is changing like a newborn’s diaper – shit is moving fast. Every time I step outside my isolated country existence I experience culture shock. I feel like an unfrozen relic of the past,...
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Desire Vs Logic
We don’t always want what’s good for us. Desire in its rawest form comes from a deep primal craving to indulge in the moment – regardless of consequences. Some of the best times of my life were when I...
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Splash Me and I’ll Splash you Back
After squatting out my child 4 ½ years ago, every single day of my life since, I’ve been a mom. The problem is that I don’t always feel like being a mom. Or maybe more accurately, some days I am better...
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It Turns Out Many People Don’t Like Me
I’m a pathologically optimistic person. I like to assume the best of the world because I am into asses, and u and me. Yet sometimes I have to acknowledge the brutal reality that not everybody wants to...
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Pretending to Pretend
If you came to my house and saw me dressed up like a princess while talking to my stuffed animals, would you think that was sweet – or that I had totally lost my fucking mind? Chances are you would...
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I’m Sick of Taking Care of Things
One of the great beauties of childhood is that you aren’t expected to take care of anyone else. You are barely expected to take care of yourself. Yeah eventually you learn to wipe your own ass and pour...
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We are not in NYC anymore
It has been 6 years since I lived in the city. Over half a decade of cuntree living where I have learned to become comfortable with spiders in my bed, eviscerated mice on my floor, and ripping ticks...
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The Munch Birthday Blog
Today is The Munch’s 5th birthday! Of course this marking of time makes me look back at these past few years and reflect. Hold on. I have to go stare in the mirror real quick. Okay I’m back. Still...
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Legos Are My OCD
The other day The Munch got a set of Legos for her birthday. She decided she wanted to open it with her babysitter, and I said sure, because I am a casual parent. I am not some corny helicopter mom who...
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The Life Of an Artist is Just an Extended Childhood
As an anti-conventional free-spirited hippy parent that wants my child to take down the system and plan a revolution, sometimes the idea of orthodox schooling disturbs me. Part of me thinks it’s...
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I See How I Suck
When someone does something shitty to you, the deed is done. They can never take away their past actions. The only thing they can do is change the way you feel about their shitty behavior. When someone...
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Just Another Childhood Trauma
Sometimes I like to sit around and think about how my parents totally fucked me up. I just find it relaxing. You know, on those cold fall days where I’m questioning my existence and wondering if my...
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