This is the cover of my poetry book I made freshman year of high school.
I brought it upstairs this morning to read a few excerpts to help my kid write his own poem for the poetry slam at his school tonight.
He was pretty pumped that poems don’t have to rhyme.
And that I was once a kid.
And a weirdo.
a semi-charmed kind of life, baby
- kid: mom, what does you tattoo mean.
- me: nothing, I just liked it.
- kid: why's it on your butt? it's reallllly close to your butt.
- me: it's not on my butt.
- kid: it looks like it says whole foods. and it's the style of whole foods drawings. you have a whole foods tattoo.
- me: i had no idea what whole foods was when i got this done, but thanks I guess.
- kid: i want a tattoo.
GPOYas the losers at the bottom o’ the Chutes in Chutes&Ladders.
I have lost six games of this stupid game of chance. I have terrible skin because I touch my face like a pouting brat when I am sad. I totally eat too many cookies and then go down a slide and cry about it. JKwellsortaJK.
“We’re advertising the Ski and Snowboard Club. You don’t need to ski or snowboard, as long as you can party.”
(San Francisco, CA)
There’s still a part of me that’s a teenager in thigh-highs smoking a cigarette across the street from school.
want. need.
there’s a cool new shop on california we popped into on our way home from adams and son. (aka the best place to buy plants forsureiswear.)
check it out.
