After discussing the future of uncouth heathen with several people, I’ve decided to keep going.  I’ve always loved having this place to write and get to know some of the people who come here to read what I have to say.  How can I abandon something that led me to my best friend and several other good people I’ve come to know and love?  It may take me a bit of time to get going again, but I hope to really kick things off by participating in National Blog Posting …

It’s been quite some time since I’ve written and there are several reasons.  One is that I’ve had a hard time really knowing what to write.  So many things have changed that it’s hard to even know how to incorporate all of that into this space.  As much as my life has changed in the last year and a half, so has how I approach writing about it as well.  I debate often with closing uncouth heathen and starting fresh somewhere else.  In some ways this seems like a part …

Here I am! Were you worried I was dead because it’s been a month since I’ve posted? No? Well, then fuck you. You should have been HYSTERICAL like I was a few weeks ago when my sister stopped answering her cell phone for 45 minutes and I was convinced she was dead or kidnapped or trapped in a stairwell at work with a broken ankle. I was planning my plea on the evening news, mentally designing fliers and rehearsing my phone call to the police to make sure it was …

First things first: POLE DANCING FOR JESUS.  This is a real thing.
I was recently having a conversation about animals and in the midst of that conversation, I decided that since I know so many amazing animal facts it totally makes sense that I venture out into the world of self-employment and create a tour company wherein people hire me to drag them through the zoo to teach them fun and interesting lies facts about the animals.  This is going to be great, I know it already.  So, in preparation, I’m …

Leah was one of the very first people to happen upon this little website outside of my family and friends.  She has always been my biggest fan, even more than Janie ever was and IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WE ARE DIVORCED THEN THERE IS A GOOD ONE OF THE MANY REASONS (Janie would like me to tell you this is a terrible, terrible lie and IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY WE ARE DIVORCED THEN THERE IS A GOOD ONE OF MANY REASONS).  But I digress.
Leah always says …

A while back I started a blog on Tumblr, where mostly people put pictures and quotes and videos and reblog the shit out of one another, so I don’t really know how I have ever managed to find something new but there we have it.  The beauty of the Internet.  Some crazy asshole is always making something new and THANK GOD, because how else would I spend 9pm to 3am every day?  Anyhow, I deleted it when I went crazy after that divorce thing happened and then, shortly thereafter, resurrected …

When I landed in Seattle after coming home from vacation, I quite literally burst into tears and cried.  I could not control myself.  I could not calm myself down.  What I know now is that I was absolutely exhausted, not from travel, but from spending every minute of every day for months just trying to keep it together.  To get better.  To feel more like myself.
I was determined to power through it.  I come from a long line of people who eschew the assistance of others so that we may …

I didn’t intend to make this feature so regular but with going on vacation and coming back and having a breakdown that started when we landed in Seattle and I burst into tears on the plane and humiliated myself, I haven’t been able to do much of anything other than fall in love with Brooke Elliott from Drop Dead Diva and cry in the bathroom at Red Robin during our family Mother’s Day celebration.  I told Leah that my goal for the next six months is to have one family …