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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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How To Like Your Family Even When You Don’t
The love you feel for your family is different than the love you feel for those you don’t share DNA with. It is almost as if the love is choiceless. Despite everything, you have to love them in this...
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Going Alone
Going somewhere alone always feels semi daunting because I have to figure out how to impress people enough to make them want to talk to me. If have to go to a place where no one knows me, that means I...
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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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Even Though I Love You I Don’t Always Like You
We all love our families – or at least we feel the cultural pressure to say we do, and honor the obligation by pretending. I have an to uncle whom I sign off emails saying, “love Toni,” but in truth I...
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Why I am The Way I am : The Shredder Saga
I feel like there are probably moments when you read my writing, and then perhaps ask yourself, “why?” Just “why is this girl like this?” Why did she have to say that? Yes it is warm, but there’s no...
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Why Being Around Your Parents as an Adult Sometimes Sucks
One of the hardest things about the holidays is being an adult, and being around your parents. No matter how great your relationship is with them, there are moments when you are going to feel...
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Death, Doughnuts, and Defecation
Returning to my blog is kind of like coming back to an ex lover. I know I can eventually get off, but it’s gonna take work to get there. Mostly because I already know how everything can go terribly...
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When You Have Nothing To Give But Forgiveness
The thing about family that is both comforting and challenging is that much like a herpes infection, they never go away. They’re not always there, but when they show up, chances are there will be some...
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Unleashing Your Inner Teen Girl
I have a very mutable personality. It’s like my identity waxes and wanes depending on my audience. I can be the serious intellectual type, the conspiracy theorist nut job, the hard working artist, the...
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The Universe Hates Me
“At first I was like, sooooo not sure if I should take a job as a Barista when looking at the sign that read, ‘Barista’s wanted.’ But then I was like, wait, that sign is totally a sign from the...
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A San Pedro Ceremony and my Rebirth into the Cosmos
You ever go to the doctor and they tell you something you don’t want to hear? I recently went to a medical professional and the doctor kept insisting that there is something wrong with my liver and...
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